A DISGRACED Scots carer has been struck off after a string of abusive actions that noticed her “shove” a service person right into a wall in addition to hitting one other colleague with a tea trolley.

Carol Smith was employed as a care assistant by HC One Restricted in Greenfield Park Care House in Glasgow when the offences came about in October 2021.

The 53-year-old was discovered to have sworn at a member of employees in reference to a care person – merely known as AA – shouting: “Why did you inform f***ing AA you’d take her to the bathroom?”

She was additionally discovered to have pushed a service person into his wheelchair and threatened to depart him there, calling him “lazy”.

Smith was moreover discovered to have “shoved” one other service person right into a wall adjoining her mattress the next day, earlier than squashing the service person’s face into the wall together with her palm.

In addition to this, the disgraced carer was discovered to have hit one other colleague with a tea trolley, repeatedly “banging into them” when passing by.

This led to a listening to of care watchdog, the Scottish Social Companies Council (SSSC), to contemplate Ferguson’s health to practise, the place they discovered the carer responsible.

The SSSC’s full report reads: “Social service employees should not abuse or hurt individuals who use providers or colleagues.

“You shoved a resident into the wall and squashed the resident’s face into the wall.

“You additionally pushed a resident into his wheelchair, hit a colleague with a tea trolley and repeatedly banged into that colleague.

“This behaviour raises severe considerations concerning your suitability to work in a caring and accountable occupation.

“This behaviour demonstrates a sample of aggressive behaviour and values points which name into query your suitability for skilled registration.

“Social service employees are anticipated to keep up the dignity of service customers and talk in an applicable method with customers of providers and colleagues.

“You will have referred to as a resident lazy, threatened to depart a resident in his wheelchair and sworn at a colleague.

“This behaviour falls effectively under the extent of professionalism anticipated of social service employees.”

While the SSSC discovered that Smith “engaged in a significant method” and acknowledged the causes of concern, the panel agreed that she was finally unfit to apply.

They said: “The behaviour was deliberate and at its highest might be thought-about bodily and emotionally abusive, each in direction of residents and colleagues.

“You have been skilled and would have identified that appearing on this method was not applicable.

“This behaviour occurred inside your place of job and is more likely to influence on the fame of the social providers occupation.

“Your actions reveal a sample of abusive and aggressive behaviour in direction of a couple of particular person.

“The behaviour resulted in emotional misery to 1 resident and had the potential to trigger bodily hurt to 2 residents.

“You have been entrusted to work with weak residents throughout the care dwelling and you’ve got demonstrated behaviour that quantities to a basic failure to comply with the Codes of Follow.

“You will have bodily and emotionally abused residents. That is an abuse of the belief positioned in you to work with weak people.”

The panel agreed that removing from the register was essentially the most applicable motion for Smith.

They said: “A warning wouldn’t be applicable because the behaviour is on the greater finish of the dimensions of impairment and a warning wouldn’t sufficiently tackle the continuing public safety considerations which come up from it.

“A situation wouldn’t be applicable as a result of the allegations contain aggressive and abusive behaviour.

“There aren’t any situations which might be positioned on you which might tackle why your health to apply has been impaired because of the nature of the behaviour.

“The SSSC considers a removing order is essentially the most applicable sanction as it’s each obligatory and justified within the public curiosity and to keep up the persevering with belief and confidence within the social service occupation and the SSSC because the regulator of the occupation.”

A spokesperson for Greenfield Park stated: “We take the consolation and wellbeing of our Residents exceptionally severely, and we don’t tolerate behaviour which undermines this.

“We’re clear that the actions of Ms Smith are unacceptable, and might verify that she has not labored for HC-One in any capability since these incidents got here to gentle two years in the past.

“We help the choice of the SSSC, and we’ll at all times help motion being taken to guard the dignity of older folks in care.”