Ms Jennifer Louise Jeffery

During the course of your employment as a Social Worker at Southampton City Council, you:

1. Did not adequately safeguard Service User A, in that, on or around 8 March 2017, you:
2. Allowed Companion B to remain present participate in a discussion about Service User A’s finances during an assessment of Service User A despite knowing the records showing:

i. Service User A was vulnerable and/or at risk of financial abuse;

ii. There was an active safeguarding alert;

iii. Companion B could be a financial abuser of Service User A.

b.Agreed that Companion B should accompany Service User A to the bank.

c. Identified Informed the Urgent Response Team that Companion B was Service User A's next of kin and/ or friend.

1. The matters set out in paragraph 1 constitute misconduct and/or lack of competence.
2. By reason of your misconduct and/or lack of competence your fitness to practise is impaired.