Evelyn V Bliss
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Allegation
As a registered Psychologist (PYL28302) your fitness to practise is impaired by reason of misconduct. In that:
1. Between approximately 2012 and 2013 you did not maintain appropriate professional boundaries with Person A, and/or you engaged in unprofessional conversation via SMS Text Messages as set out in Schedule A.
2. Between approximately 2017 and 2019 the content of your email and/or written correspondence to Person A was unprofessional and/or crossed professional boundaries as set out in Schedule B.
3. On or around 04 March 2013, your conduct was unprofessional when you attended Person A’s home and you abruptly left without returning despite Person A’s attempts to make a safeguarding disclosure to you, and
4. You said to Person A in a Social Media text that you sent afterwards, “You told me to go so I went”
5. On or around 06 March 2013, when Person A made disclosures of physical and/or emotional abuse by her adoptive parents, you delayed making the safeguarding referral dated 13 March until 20 March 2013, relating to.
6. Person A
7. Child 1
8, Child 2
9. Between March 2018 and October 2018 when Person A was no longer your patient you inappropriately supported Person A’s contact with Person B despite Person B having convictions for downloading and accessing indecent images of children, and/or ;
10. You did not ensure that action was taken and/or an appropriate safeguarding alert raised to Social Services about the potential safeguarding risk Person B posed to Person A and Child 1, 2 and 3.
11. On 15 March 2015, you acted outside the scope of your practice when you wrote a letter to Person A supporting Child 1 attending a residential school despite having never been formally involved with Child 1 and/or carrying out any formal assessment of Child 1.
12. On 18 February 2018, in a letter to the Criminal Injury Compensation Authority [CICA] you gave a ‘clinical opinion’ that Child 1 suffered from ADHD and Autism despite not having formally assessed Child 1.
13. The matters set out in allegations 1-7 and above constitute misconduct.
14. By reason of your misconduct your fitness to practise is impaired.
Finding
Preliminary Matters
Private
1. The HCPC submits that this hearing should be held entirely in private, under Rule 10 of the Procedure Rules 2003, which states: “…the proceeding shall be held in public unless the Committee is satisfied that, in the interests of justice or for the protection of the private life of the health professional, the complainant, any person giving evidence, or of any patient or client, the public should be excluded from all or part of the hearing.”
2. Ms Sampson on behalf of the HCPC submitted that the concerns raised in this hearing are inextricably linked to the matters before the previous panel at the substantive hearing. At the previous hearing it was accepted that the entire hearing should be in private, taking into account the Order of the Family Court dated 22 January 2021 and to protect the private life of Person A.
3. The Panel today finds there is a necessity for the entire hearing to be held in private, taking into account the Order of the Family Court dated 22 January 2021 and to protect the private life of the Registrant.
Order
ORDER: The Registrar is directed to strike the name of Ms Evelyn V Bliss from the Register.
The Order imposed today will apply with immediate effect.
Notes
No notes available
Hearing History
History of Hearings for Evelyn V Bliss
| Date | Panel | Hearing type | Outcomes / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 30/08/2024 | Conduct and Competence Committee | Review Hearing | Struck off |
| 14/02/2024 | Conduct and Competence Committee | Review Hearing | Suspended |
| 25/05/2023 | Conduct and Competence Committee | Consent Order Hearing | Suspended |