Wash. Admin. Code § 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.
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