“I feel the claimant had sought to engage in inappropriate conversations of a personalized nature with (the medical doctors) and had tried to persuade them to meet privately with him. In addition, he had, I believed, told them each to maintain these matters amongst them secret,” Dr Thomson said.
She added: “Worst of all, the claimant had sought to influence the junior physicians by implying that their careers may be affected if they did not comply with his requests to meet, or would be enhanced if they complied with the requests to meet outside of function hours and at his residence.
“As junior doctors, they have been in a vulnerable position in relation to the claimant and their careers would have been hard won and very dear to them. To try to exploit this was wholly wrong.”
Dr Thomson stated the ladies, who are not able to be named, “felt intimidated by the advances created by the claimant”, and that his conduct had been “unwanted and had triggered them anxiousness and distress”.
One of the females alleged the unmarried surgeon touched her inappropriately on the leg in a failed sexual advance in his office, whilst the other explained he sent her “persistent” text messages asking her to come over to his house soon after perform.
Dr Thomson said: “The two medical doctors explained how the claimant’s position and influence with the Yearly Assessment of Competence Progression approach had been referred to on numerous occasions and that they had understood that their ARCP would endure if they did not agree to devote social time with the claimant.”
The ARCP is a formal assessment used to determine how well a trainee doctor is progressing in their coaching, the tribunal heard.
Dr Thomson stated the accused advisor had referred to as one particular of the ladies “a liar” and claimed the two had colluded to destroy his profession when he was hauled just before the disciplinary hearing.
“In essence, the claimant denied he had behaved in the way alleged by (the physicians) and he said the incidents they described had basically not happened,” explained Dr Thomson, director of children and women’s services at the hospital Believe in.
She continued: “I in the end concluded that each (doctors) were credible witnesses. I discovered no evidence to substantiate the claimant’s argument that the junior physicians had colluded with every single other.
“I believed (the doctors) and I believed the claimant had behaved in the way they described. I identified the claimant’s perform, aside from getting intimidating and upsetting, amounted to sexual harassment.”
The advisor was located guilty of gross misconduct and sacked with instant impact in December 2012.
Now, he is suing the NHS Believe in for unfair dismissal, breach of contract, racial discrimination, sexual discrimination, and loss of wages at Reading through Tribunal Centre, Studying, Berkshire.
The advisor claims the allegations were fabricated as portion of a cynical move by the Trust managers to force him out of his occupation amid budget cuts.
Nonetheless, Dr Thomson mentioned she was unaware of the planned restructuring of his department at the time she sacked him, and pointed out that his dismissal induced “quick-phrase troubles” at the hospital in which he worked.
The 3-week tribunal continues ahead of Employment Judge Andrew Gumbiti-Zimuto. The tribunal manufactured an buy precluding the naming of the claimant or anything at all which may possibly identify him for the length of the proceedings.
Best surgeon sacked right after allegedly harassing two female trainee medical professionals, tribunal hears
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