Anger management classes for care worker after foul-mouthed rant

Woman shouted abuse at elderly resident

ACARE worker who told an elderly resident to “f**k off” has been ordered to take anger management classes. Tara McLean hurled abuse and expletives at vulnerable people living at Lindsayfield Lodge in East Kilbride.

The care assistant lost the plot over a two-day period in June last year, where she was also found by a watchdog to have said “this is a f***ing joke” and “how the f**k did she fall” in the presence of residents.

Now, McLean has been reprimanded by the Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC), which outlined that her fitness to practice had been “impaired”.

The SSSC found McLean’s behaviour caused residents distress and put them at risk of emotional harm, writing: “Your fitness to practise is impaired because social services workers, in whom the public place their trust and confidence, are expected to treat service users with dignity and respect and protect them from harm.

“By shouting and swearing both at a resident and in the presence of service users you have failed to uphold this trust and confidence.

“You have intentionally sworn at a service user and intentionally swore in the presence of another service user, causing them distress.

“Behaviour of this nature is not easily remediable.

“Given that these behaviours were separate incidents over the course of two days, the SSSC considered this to be a pattern with a middling risk of repetition.

“These sorts of behaviour present a risk to service users and in terms of potential impact, it could cause further emotional harm to vulnerable service users.”

A three-year warning was imposed on McLean, who has also been told to be supervised every six weeks for 12 months.