Care home boss gets a life ban for letting the OAPs have sex
A WOMAN has been banned for life from running a care home after admitting a string of offences, including ignoring sexual behaviour between elderly residents.
Bernice Jaumotte gets a life ban from running a care home
Bernice Jaumotte, 64, confessed to eight offences including not taking steps to prevent “sexualised behaviour” between residents.
She also admitted running an unclean home, ignoring residents’ needs and not providing care plans or risk assessments for patients.
Mrs Jaumotte, who qualified as a nurse in New Zealand in 1974, also allowed the staff of Amber House in Abergele, North Wales, to use their hands to put medication into the mouths of patients.
Bernice Jaumotte confessed to eight offences of not taking steps to prevent 'sexualised behaviour'
She appeared before a Care Council For Wales disciplinary hearing for misconduct following her suspension from nursing last August.
You take your eye off the ball and things can go badly wrong very quickly
That followed an investigation by Care Social Service inspectors in December 2013.
Residents were found looking unclean and unkempt, some with torn clothes, beds were stained, while carpets, bed linen and crockery were unclean and of poor quality.
Mrs Jaumotte’s lawyer Susan Cavenden told the Cardiff hearing: “She admits misconduct and the facts of the case.”
The Care Council conduct committee hearing was told that Mrs Jaumotte had taken over duties as the care home manager in May, 2013, after the previous manager left.
Miss Cavenden said that some of the offences in the home occurred before Miss Jaumotte became the acting manager.
Mrs Jaumotte told the hearing: “People lied to me that things were being done. I had no reason to think that anything was wrong.
“You take your eye off the ball and things can go badly wrong very quickly.”
Mrs Jaumotte, whose home is now closed, was ordered to be permanently removed from the social care register.
Residents were found looking unclean and unkempt
Disciplinary hearing chairwoman Dr Norma Barry told her: “These matters came to light as a result of a series of inspections following concerns raised by members of the public.
“They were widespread and significant failings concerning the safety and well-being of residents.
“The problems at the home were wide-ranging and significant and vulnerable residents were put at risk.
“The committee is not convinced that even now you accepted the failings were your responsibility. There is an ongoing failure to take full responsibility.”