A nurse managing a Knotty Ash care home groped a colleague and told her if she spoke up she'd be sacked.
John Davies hounded the woman with sexual comments while working as a manager at Finch Manor Care Home in 2017. On one occasion he asked her "do you like to be used and abused?" and on another told her he wanted to lift up her t-shirt so he could "see her t***".
The litany of harassment behaviours saw Davies investigated by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC), which regulates the register of nurses able to practise in the UK. According to an independent disciplinary panel the most severe incident occurred in November that year, when the woman went into a resident's room to help her with a leg dressing.
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In a statement made a short time later, she said: "John came in the room and asked, ‘what's the problem?’. The resident was on the toilet, and I went to go outside but John shut the door and got me up against the wall, he tried to grope me.
"He was trying to grab my chest. I put my arms in front of me so he couldn't touch me. John knew I don't want him to touch me. I never gave him any inkling that I wanted him to touch me. One of the carers tried to open the door but she couldn't get in."
On another occasion, she described how Mr Davies walked into a room where she was leaning forward tidying up, grabbed her hips and then gyrated against her.
Yet another shocking incident occurred while the woman was helping a patient. She said: "I was holding the resident’s leg to help, and John was looking down my top. He pulled my top away and said ‘oooh what have you got down there?’.
"I felt so exposed. I looked at it, that he's a nurse and I should be able to go into a resident’s room without a nurse doing that to me."
The woman said she did not immediately report the incidents because Mr Davies told her he was "best friends" with the home's registered manager. He told her if she reported it "it would just get brushed under the carpet" and "you will probably lose your job".
However the woman did eventually report Mr Davies who was sacked by Finch Manor and referred to the NMC. She also reported him to Merseyside Police, but the panel said it had not been informed about the outcome of that investigation.
The disciplinary panel found all the allegations against Mr Davies proved, and struck him off the register. The panel wrote: "The panel noted that, despite Colleague A repeatedly asking him to correct his behaviour and act in a professional way, Mr Davies continued to act inappropriately and disregarded those impacted by his misconduct.
"The panel considered that it is likely that Mr Davies’ behaviour would be repeated and, consequently, he currently poses a risk to patients, residents and colleagues."
