Disciplinary panel at former work place?

neviditelny

neviditelny

neviditelny

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Good morning

I want to ask for a bit of general advice and suggestions from others. Last summer I did get suspended from work in the NHS (I'm not a Doctor or Nurse, nor had a position with a registered profession) and they started an internal investigation about me. They also filed a claim with the police who opened an investigation about me. My case was closed in September by the police, without me being ever contacted in any form by the police (I even went to the station to speak with an officer about my case as well several times).

Now last month I got an email from the hospital saying they are going to have a disciplinary panel about my case, even though I since then have left the Trust and also moved back to my native country.

Any suggestions of what I should do in this case?

I've been told by someone I know who used to be a union rep for Royal Mail that I don't need to attend as I no longer work for the Trust and also no longer live in the UK either (I also have no intentions to return there for work). Someone else said I should go for the meeting to clear my name but I'm very conflicted in what to do.

The other details in my case is left pretty vague for now.
 
Send them a message explaining that you no longer work for the trust or live in the country.
 
Perhaps there are further ramifications for other staff or procedures. A learning exercise.
If the offence was non extraditable you have few concerns.
 
Hagar said:
Perhaps there are further ramifications for other staff or procedures. A learning exercise.
If the offence was non extraditable you have few concerns.
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I have even been back to UK once since this for a gig, without any issues. And one of my good friends best friend works as a sergeant in the Met and have helped me understand the policiary sides of it, and if any prosecution would have come from this case the time limit for prosecution expired in January. So the only thing I could be "punished" for is breaking hospital policy, but not the law.
 
It’s likely to close off their internal investigation.. who knows if they find that you have been unfairly treated/dismissed you may be entitled to compensation.

Ask if you can attend virtually.

Edit: don’t shawshak us… what was you accused of?
 
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Are they even suggesting there's anything in it for you to attend and be grilled over events?
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I'm not sure, but sometimes it feels like they have tried to use me as a scapegoat. The union rep guy I mentioned have said that there is several points where my unit failed at in my case.
 
slinxy said:
It’s likely to close off their internal investigation.. who knows if they find that you have been unfairly treated/dismissed you may be entitled to compensation.

Ask if you can attend virtually.
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This is what they wrote in the email I got from them last time, "Following on from the fair treatment panel, the decision has been made to progress to a disciplinary hearing."

Since then I have found out that my police investigation was closed in September (the event happened in late july). They did offer a virtual attendance. I did hand in my notice and left myself, as I felt that I wouldnt be able to go back to my work again even if I was free'd from wrong doing.
 
Yeah.. one of the lads I used to work with when I first started my career was up for a sackable offence.

He wasn’t really the type to have done what they was accusing him off.. but the team leader who was a **** had it in for him and others in the team.

When asked what he said do, I just suggest that he resigned rather than fight it as he didn’t really want a sacking on his record so new into his career.

Looking back on it was really a bottom ruin position and even if he did “win”, his position would have been untenable.. would it have been worth the hassle? Best case scenario, he would have kept his job and maybe moved to another team and the team leader would have got some “training”.
 
Sounds like someone you don't work for wants you to do something you don't have to do. Ask if they're willing to pay your hourly rate of whatever joke rate you feel like.
 
So if I don't want to I don't need to attend if I don't want to? (not sure about the actual legalities).

I am a bit frustrated as the manager at the hospital said it would be 6-8 weeks investigation initially (took them about 5 weeks just to start the investigation) and now its almost 7,5 months since the incident happened.
 
neviditelny said:
So if I don't want to I don't need to attend if I don't want to? (not sure about the actual legalities).

I am a bit frustrated as the manager at the hospital said it would be 6-8 weeks investigation initially (took them about 5 weeks just to start the investigation) and now its almost 7,5 months since the incident happened.
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Theres now even an NHS waiting list for disciplinaries. :D
 
No one on here will be able to give any specific advice what to do, and whether rightly or wrongly accused of whatever it was, it's obviously a fairly serious issue if the police were involved at the outset.

I think you have two options - you either completely ignore it OR you need to seek proper legal advice to deal with it.

If going to second route, I think you need to get all the relevant information about the investigation as there is obviously some serious issues here since they are clearly still chasing you despite no longer working for the NHS.
 
As far as I'm aware they can't impact your pension etc so there's little incentive to participate in their procedures.

Fact it was referred to the Police is likely why disciplinary was delayed but it also appears to be lower priority for them.
 
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