The staff member at Springfield Bank Care Home is concerned about the wellbeing of residents who come into contact with the five staff members at the facility on Cockpen Crescent, which currently has more than 45 staff members in total through permanent and agency workers.
The whistleblower told the Evening News they have passed on screenshots of social media group chats describing drug use at the HC-One-run home and mocking residents.
They said: “I made a complaint to the Care Inspectorate. I gave them evidence of staff members using and selling drugs within the property and mocking staff, residents and residents’ families on a Facebook group chat. And just inappropriate chats like wanting a resident’s husband to fancy them.
"Some of these residents are very vulnerable with conditions like dementia.
"When I reported this, the Care Inspectorate were highly disappointed as the home has been in the papers before.
"It is a small minority of staff though. Mostly aged 20-23, although there is one who is slightly older and who is a mother.
"Two of them sat in a resident’s room while the resident was asleep because they were depressed and wanted to sit in a dark, quiet room. There is no dignity there at all.
"I didn’t go to my line manager as I didn’t think anything would be done about it. It’s quite clique.
"But I take my job to heart, I love it. But this shows these people don’t care at all about the residents. They are just there because it’s a job, to pay for the things they...
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