Mrs Jaymie-Lee Fines
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Allegation
As a registered Arts Therapist your fitness to practise is impaired by reason of misconduct. In that:
1. On or around 01 May 2021 on your application for employment as a Mental Health Practitioner with Organisation A, you answered ‘no’ when asked if your conduct in relation to children had ever been a cause for concern or investigation, including workplace investigations,
when this was not the case as:
a. you were the subject of an ongoing Health and Care Professions Council investigation relating to failure to maintain professional boundaries with a young person (Young Person A).
b. You had been subject to a LADO investigation regarding your conduct with Young Person A.
2. Your actions in relation to Particular 1 were dishonest.
3. The matters set out in Particulars 1 and 2 above constitute misconduct.
4. By reason of your misconduct your fitness to practise is impaired.
Finding
Preliminary Matters
Application to conduct the hearing in private
1.The Registrant applied for the entirety of the hearing to be heard in private on the basis that the hearing would concern issues regarding her health and the identity of Young Person A (YPA).
2.Ms Bass submitted that any issues relating to the Registrant’s health should be heard in private, as should the details of a decision of the HCPC Conduct and Competence Committee, reached in 2021, which had been produced as part of the Registrant’s hearing bundle, and which had been heard entirely in private. Ms Bass submitted that the remainder of the hearing should be held in public.
3.The Panel accepted the advice of the Legal Assessor. The Panel applied Rule 10(1)(a) of the Health and Care Professions Council (Conduct and Competence Committee) (Procedure) Rules 2003 (“the Rules”), which states:
“At any hearing, the proceedings 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 registrant, the complainant, any person giving evidence or of any patient or client, the public should be excluded from all or part of the hearing”.
4.The Panel accepted the submission that matters relating to the Registrant’s health form part of her private life and require protection. The Panel concluded that it would be impractical to conduct the hearing partly in public as it appeared, on the face of the material provided by the Registrant, that she would be relying on matters relating to her health throughout the entirety of the hearing.
5.Accordingly, the Panel decided to hear the entirety of the hearing in private.
Admissions
6. At the commencement of the hearing the Registrant entered admissions to Particulars 1(a) and 1(b) of the Allegation.
Witnesses
7. The HCPC relied on two witnesses:
• SR, Case Manager at the HCPC, who produced the Registrant’s referral to the HCPC and whose statement was admitted into proceedings.
• Person B, Interim Clinical Director of Organisation A at the material time, who was called to give evidence.
8. The Registrant gave evidence and provided a bundle of documentation, which included:
• A number of statements, written by her, explaining her version of events
• A series of emails relating to an application for employment made by her in 2020 and a further application for employment made by her in 2022
• A reference from her current employer
• A copy of a decision reached by the Conduct and Competence Committee of the HCPC in 2021, relating to an allegation brought against the Registrant, which formed part of the backdrop to the current Allegation, and is referred to in this decision as “the HCPC 2021 hearing decision”.
Order
Order: The Registrar is directed to suspend the name of Jaymie-Lee Fines from the register for a period of 12 months.
Notes
The order will apply on the expiry of the appeal period.
Hearing History
History of Hearings for Mrs Jaymie-Lee Fines
| Date | Panel | Hearing type | Outcomes / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18/06/2025 | Conduct and Competence Committee | Review Hearing | Suspended |
| 04/06/2024 | Conduct and Competence Committee | Final Hearing | Suspended |
| 05/09/2023 | Conduct and Competence Committee | Final Hearing | Adjourned |