A CARER threatened to ‘smack’ a woman staying in an Ayr care home ‘in the mouth’. 

David Murray, who worked at Rozelle Farm care home but is now suspended, also warned that the resident was ‘lucky she was in here and not a few years younger’.

In its findings on last July’s incident, the council’s Fitness to Practise Panel stated: “Murray pointed his finger close to the face of a resident, shouted “you don’t like me and I don’t like you so shut the f**k up” or words to that effect, stated to a colleague that he would “not work with her again” or words to that effect and said the resident “was a loud mouthed b**tard and she was lucky she was in here and not a few years younger”.

The care organisation found that Murray was guilty of all the allegations made and imposed a Removal Order and to extend the current Temporary Suspension Order for a period of two months.

However, the panel acknowledged that, prior to the incidents, Murray’s employer had no concerns about his practise and neither did his colleagues and prior the incident, indicating that he had provided personal care to said resident without any problems.

One witness that spoke of the events to the panel, described them be “surprised” and “frightened” by Murray’s behaviour and she found it to be “out of character”.

It a statement from the Panel, it said: “The Panel has concluded that AA had been placed at risk of harm and that you had been guilty of a fundamental failure to support AA’s right to choose.

“Aggravating factors included, your misconduct is serious - it involves numerous breaches of the Code, you failed to respect the right of AA to make choices about her personal care even though she had the capacity to do so, your misconduct involved aggressive and abusive behaviour towards a service user.

“This behaviour appears to have been wholly unprovoked.
“Your misconduct placed AA and your colleagues at risk of emotional harm.

“There was no evidence before the Panel that you have demonstrated any remorse for, or insight into the nature of, your misconduct and there was no evidence before the Panel that you have taken any steps to remedy your misconduct.”