WAC 246-980-065. Home care aide provisional certification

(1) The department may issue a provisional certification to a long-term care worker who is limited-English proficient and submits: (a) A request for a provisional certification; and (b) Verification of his or her date of hire as a long-term care worker, as follows: (i) For individual providers, verification of the applicant's date of hire submitted directly by the department of social and health services; or (ii) For all other applicants, a form supplied by the department and completed by the employer who hired the applicant as a long-term care worker, verifying the applicant's date of hire. (2) A provisional certification will be issued only once. (3) A provisional certification will take effect two hundred days from the applicant's date of hire as a long-term care worker, as defined in WAC 246-980-010 (2). (4) A provisional certification will expire two hundred sixty days from the applicant's date of hire as a long-term care worker. The applicant must stop working on the two hundred sixtieth day of employment if the certification has not been granted for any reason. (5) A request for provisional certification may be denied pursuant to chapter 18.130 RCW, the Uniform Disciplinary Act, or based on RCW 18.88B.080 . (6) For the purposes of this section, "limited-English proficient" means that an individual is limited in his or her ability to read, write, or speak English.