Nicole Roberts

 As a registered Occupational Therapist (OT74618) your fitness to practise is impaired by reason of misconduct and/or health. In that: 

1. You did not maintain appropriate professional boundaries in relation to Service User A, in that: 

a. On or around 1 February 2019 you:  

i. accessed their confidential information without appropriate reason to do so, in order to obtain their personal phone number  

ii. contacted Service User A from your personal mobile phone for a non professional purpose. 

b. On or around 15 February 2019 you placed your hand on their thigh and said “it will be okay” or words to that effect. 

c. Between 1 February 2019 and 20 April 2019 you had an inappropriate relationship with Service User A, both in person and via text and/or Whats App messaging. 

d. Between 1 February 2019 and 20 April 2019 you inappropriately disclosed personal details about yourself and your private life to Service User A via text and/or WhatsApp messaging. 

2. On or around 20 April 2019 you did not adequately report that Service User A disclosed that they felt suicidal. 

3. On 28 May 2020 you wrote and signed a police witness statement that contained false statements. In that: 

a. You stated “when he wasn’t my patient, I gave Service User A my personal phone number” 

b. You stated “we met up socially three times after he was no longer my patient” 

c. You stated “I didn’t have any romantic intentions towards Service User A” 

d. When referring to Service User A telling you he loved you, you stated “I felt uncomfortable about this and said that I did not feel the same way, and that I only wanted to be friends”  

4. Between 1 February 2019 and 12 April 2019 you did not complete adequate records of all conversations that you had with Service User A within his patient notes. 

5. You have a physical and/or mental health condition as set on in Schedule A 

6. Your conduct in relation to particular 3 above was dishonest and/or misleading. 

7. Your conduct in relation to 1(a), 1(b), 1(c) and/or 1(d) above was sexually motivated. 

8. The matters set out in particulars 1, 2, 3, 4, 6 and 7 above constitute misconduct. 

9. By reason of your misconduct and/or health your fitness to practise is impaired 

Schedule A 

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