Sainab Jamal
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Allegation
As a registered Occupational Therapist (OT70260) your fitness to practise is impaired by reason of misconduct and/or a health condition. In that:
- On or about 8 November 2019, you:
- a) Attended work, to accompany Service User A to ‘Housing Options’ whilst under the influence of alcohol
- b) Left Service User A at ‘Housing Options’ without any or any adequate handover to another professional;
- c) Discussed the health condition of Service User A in a raised voice and/or within the hearing of others at ‘Housing Options’ thereby breaching Service User A’s confidentiality.
- You have a physical and/or mental health condition as set out in Schedule A.
- The matters set out at any or all of Particulars 1(a) to 1(c) above constitute misconduct.
- By reason of your misconduct and/or health condition your fitness to practise is impaired.
Schedule A
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Finding
Preliminary Matters
Application for the hearing to be held in private
1. Ms Collins on behalf of the HCPC advised that reference would be made to the Registrant’s health and asked that the hearing be held in private. The application was supported by the Registrant.
2. The Panel were referred to the relevant Procedure Rules and were aware that there are two broad circumstances in which all or part of a hearing may be held in private:
• where it is in the interests of justice to do so; or
• where it is done in order to protect the private life of:
• the registrant who is the subject of the allegation;
• the complainant;
• a witness giving evidence; or
• a service user.
3. The Panel were mindful of the ‘open justice’ principle and that the Procedure Rules state that proceedings should be held in public unless they are satisfied that it is in the interests of justice to hold all or part of the hearing in private to protect the private life of the Registrant.
4. The Panel were further reminded that health cases will usually require panels to consider personal and sensitive details of a registrant’s physical or mental health condition. A panel would be justified in hearing such cases in private in order to protect the registrant’s privacy unless there are compelling public interest grounds for not doing so.
5. The Panel were satisfied that it was appropriate for the whole of the hearing to be heard in private as matters relating to the health and/or private life of the Registrant were inevitably going to be raised throughout the hearing.
Order
Order: The Registrar is directed to annotate the HCPC Register to show that, for a period of two years from the date that this Order takes effect (“the Operative Date”), you, Sainab Jamal, must comply with the following conditions of practice:
[Conditions in private]
Notes
Interim Order application
[In private]
Decision
8. The Panel makes an Interim Conditions of Practice Order under Article 31(2) of the Health Professions Order 2001, the same being necessary to protect members of the public and being otherwise in the public interest.
9. This order will expire: (if no appeal is made against the Panel’s decision and Order) upon the expiry of the period during which such an appeal could be made; (if an appeal is made against the Panel’s decision and Order) the final determination of that appeal, subject to a maximum period of 18 months.
Hearing History
History of Hearings for Sainab Jamal
| Date | Panel | Hearing type | Outcomes / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 24/04/2023 | Health Committee | Final Hearing | Conditions of Practice |