A care worker from Thurso has been struck-off the support workers in adult care homes register.
Colin Nelson, who had been on the register since 2015, was described by the Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) as exhibiting serious and repeated behaviour, accompanied by denials and lack of insight.
SSSC said there was a risk to public protection which was ‘not capable of easy remediation’ due to Nelson’s underlying behaviour and attitudinal issues.
Its fitness to practise panel were told there had been two separate incidents involving two residents where Nelson was ‘rough and shouted at a resident and treated them in a disrespectful manner’ – behaviour said to have been so fundamentally incompatible with being a social service worker in a care home that his removal was necessary.
The incidents took place at an unnamed care home in Inverness in 2016 and 2017.
In the first incident, Nelson failed to wear gloves, pushed a resident on her side with excessive force and handled her roughly when undressing her.
In the second incident he shouted in the face of another resident and acted aggressively.
SSSC said the acts were deliberate and although the case did not involve dishonesty it was a breach of trust.
Nelson did not appear at his hearing – showing a lack of insight such that improvement was unlikely, the panel said.
It concluded the gravity of the incidents was such that his removal from the register was “the appropriate sanction”.
