Support worker failed to disclose court convictions
ASUPPORT worker threw a clothes horse at a woman b e f o r e repeatedly slapping her.
Joseph Hadome has been handed a warning by the social services watchdog after failing to disclose the offences.
He was convicted of assault at Glasgow Sheriff Court on April 5 last year, after assaulting the woman on October 17, 2021.
On the same day, he assaulted another person by throwing a popcorn container at him, causing injury.
Between October 2021 and March 2022, the Glasgow support worker did not inform his employer or the Scottish Social Services Council ( SSSC) about the offences. A recent hearing report stated: “Your behaviour was serious. The public has the right to expect that social service workers uphold the law.
“Your behaviour which you have been convicted of demonstrates a loss of self- control and violent behaviour.
“By failing to declare to your employer and to the SSSC that you had been charged with the offences is also serious. You have acted dishonestly and tried to conceal this information. “As a result of your dishonesty, you have breached the trust placed in you. You behaved in a threatening and intimidating way which was likely to have caused emotional and psychological harm.
“Although your behaviour did not directly affect or impact service users, the profession relies on social service workers being caring and professional during a time when people who use services have little or no choice but to be trusting.”
Factors ruled in Hadome’s favour included him demonstrating a level of insight and remorse, as well as apologising for not declaring his conviction sooner.
He also fully cooperated with the SSSC investigation, provided references in support of his work, and was found to have no previous incidents of his fitness to practise being impaired.
A warning on his registration for one year was found to be the most appropriate sanction.