NEWS HR
March 1, 2018
Harriet Haire, who has died aged 87, was a remarkable lady who overcame personal misfortune and later became a prominent figure in Clydebank and nationally in the community housing association sector.
March 1, 2018
A carer who abused two elderly men suffering from dementia by flicking their penises and pinching their nipples was jailed for one year in the Eastern Magistracy yesterday. Chui Chung-hin, 25, pleaded guilty to three counts of indecent assault. Deputy Magistrate Simon Ho Kick-fai refused the man’s request for bail pending an appeal.
March 1, 2018
Maryhill Housing has announced a pair of senior appointments. Jennifer Simon has been appointed director of operations following her recent stint as interim director of operations, while Rebecca Wilson joins as director of resources.
March 1, 2018
A senior care worker stole between £12,000 and £15,000 from people with mental disabilities in a “gross breach of trust”, York Crown Court heard. Beth Wallace admitted setting up internet banking for the accounts of five people for whom she was a care supervisor when working for Mencap in York. She pleaded guilty to five charges of fraud in abuse of position by transferring money from the victims’ bank accounts to her own between September 16, 2016, and December 20, 2016. The prosecution claims she may have taken £15,340. She claims she took £12,000. Wallace, 55, who gave her address at an earlier hearing as a retirement complex on Melton Road, Waltham on the Wolds, near Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, will be sentenced on April 12.
February 27, 2018
Sam Monaghan has been named the new CEO of national older people’s charity MHA.
February 22, 2018
Peter Molyneux has been appointed as chair of Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust from 1 April 2018.
February 21, 2018
Claire Stone, who joined Shipley-based Accent Housing in 1989 as a housing assistant, has now been appointed to a new executive director role.
February 19, 2018
A care home nurse who slapped a dementia patient in the face will be allowed to return to work after it was accepted she acted in self defence. Michele Rowley was working at The Pavillion Care Centre in Houghton le Spring in August 2016 when she struck a ‘vulnerable’ elderly woman who was ‘violent and agressive’. The nurse, who had an unblemished 35-year career until this incident, told a Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) panel was told that the woman, identified as Resident A, was ‘difficult’ and ‘never spoke but made growling noises and was prone to acts of violence’
