Your achievements. Easier to show, share and verify.
ETF digital credentials help you showcase your professional achievements with confidence.
Whether you've completed professional learning, achieved an assessed recognition, contributed to the sector or hold ETF membership, digitial credentials provide a clear and trusted way to demonstrate your achievements throughout your career.
Each credential includes a verified online record, making it easier for employers, colleagues and professional networks to understand and verify what you've achieved.
On this page, you'll find information about how digital credentials work, how to use them, frequently asked questions and links to support.
What is a digital credential?
A digital credential is a verified online record issued by ETF to recognise a particular achievement, contribution, membership grade or professional standing. It explains:
- Who received the recognition
- What the recognition represents
- How it was achieved
- Whether it remains current.
Where relevant, a credential may also describe the knowledge, skills, behaviours or Professional Standards associated with the recognition. Every credential includes a unique ID and a live verification page, allowing others to check its authenticity and current status.
A credential may include a digital badge, a digital certificate or both. These are simply different ways of presenting the same recognition.
Digital badges and certificates explained
Format |
What it is |
How to use it |
Digital badge |
A visual symbol of your recognition, connected to its live credential record. | Display it on professional profiles, websites, portfolios, or email signatures, linked to the verified record. |
Digital certificate |
A formal certificate showing your name, recognition, relevant dates, unique credential ID, and QR code. | Download it for your records, share it electronically, or print it for display. |
Live credential page |
The online record explaining the recognition, its requirement, and current validity. |
Share the link so employers, collegues, and others can understand and verify your recognition. |
The badge makes your recognition visible. The certificate provides a formal record. The live credential page enables others to understand and verify the recognition behind them.
Connecting a printed certificate to its digital record
Each ETF certificate includes a unique credential ID and QR code.
Anyone viewing a printed certificate can scan the QR code to open the corresponding online credential record. The credential ID provides a unique reference for that specific recognition and can be used if support is required.
While a printed certificate records recognition at a particular point in time, the live credential page enables others to confirm whether the recognition remains current.
WHAT DOES ETF RECOGNISE?
ETF uses digital credentials to recognise a wide range of professional achievements and accomplishments, including:
- Professional learning and development
- Professional Status and Specialist Status
- Membership grades
- Professional contribution and achievement
- Organisational and partnership recognition
Each credential explains the specific requirement that were met to receive that recognition.
It's important to understand that different credentials recognise different forms of achievement. For example, a credential may represent attendance, programme completion, assessment achievement or current professional standing.
For this reason, receiving a credential does not automatically indicate that an individual has completed an assessment or demonstrate professional competencies. Always refer to the credential record to understand the recognition being awarded.
PUT YOUR RECOGNITION TO WORK
Digital credentials make it easier to showcase your achievements where they matter most. You can:
- Add a verified credential link to your CV
- Share achievements on LinkedIn
- Include badges in professional portfolios
- Add credentials to email signatures
- Present certificates as evidence of professional achievement
Where recognition includes post-nominals, we encourage you to use the permitted letters in your professional profile name, email signature and professional biographies.
For example:
Alex Morgan METF QTLS
Your membership grade should appear first, followed by your Professional Status.
Frequently asked questions
ETF issues credentials once the relevant requirements have been met and confirmed. Your programme, membership or Professional Status communications will explain what credentials are available and when they will be issued.
Digital credentials are being introduced in phases, and we'll notify you when yours is ready.
You can access your ETF credentials through MyETF. Accredible provides the platform used to host ETF digital credentials.
Yes. Anyone with access to your credential can view its verified online record using the credential link or by scanning the QR code on a certificate.
If additional verification is needed, they can contact ETF.
Some credentials represent achievements that remain permanently awarded, while others depend on ongoing requirements such as active membership or professional status.
While this applies, the credential page will clearly explain the current validity of the recognition.
Active ETF membership is required to maintain QTLS.
If your membership lapses, you are no longer entitled to use QTLS as a current professional designation, regardless of any previously issued certificate or record.
ATS also requires active ETF membership to remain current and to continue using the ATS designation.
Your information and privacy
ETF works with Accredible, a specialist digital credential provider, to create and host digital credentials.
ETF remain responsible for the recognition being awarded and the accuracy of the information used to issue it. Information is shared only where necessary to identify the recipient, issue the credential and explain the recognition.
Credential visibility, social sharing and inclusion in the Professional Register are managed separately. We'll explain what information is shared, what controls and available and how you can manage your preferences.