A foul-mouthed care home worker has been struck off for calling a pensioner a “f**king old c**t”.
Jennifer Geddes Conner was banned from the profession by a watchdog this week for expletive-laden remarks made to residents at Forth View Care Centre in Methil, Fife.
The care assistant was found to have acted in an aggressive manner towards the male resident she branded a “c**t”, leaning close to his face and asking “what are you going to do?”
She told another pensioner “shut your puss” and swore at a third, saying “f**king hell” while providing personal care at the centre, operated by Balhousie Care Group.
A hearing of the Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) was told Conner did not engage with proceedings and had not shown any “insight, regret or apology” regarding the incidents.
Conner was dismissed from Forth View, a 55-bed care centre specialising in care for adults with disabilities and Alzheimer’s and dementia, after colleagues reported her behaviour to care chiefs.
She had been a carer for around two years before the incidents.
Last month a hearing of the SSSC found her fitness to practise was impaired due to her misconduct between January and June 2017.
Confirming her removal from the care register,the watchdog said in its report: "The Panel heard evidence that colleagues had spoken to you about the foul language you used in front of service users. In spite of that, you continued to use such language.
“Your behaviour was capable of causing emotional harm to service users and certainly caused upset to your colleagues; and your behaviour constituted an abuse of trust, insofar as vulnerable, elderly service users are entitled to be treated with dignity and respect.
“Your behaviour towards them, or in their presence, was a failure to treat them in the manner they, their families and the public were entitled to expect.”
