A Scots instructor has been reprimanded for mendacity on an software for a brand new job, claiming she held senior roles at colleges when she had not.
Jillian Hamilton-Cooper was discovered when a would-be new employer contacted her boss for a reference for a task as a science instructor.
The Common Educating Council for Scotland (GTCS) revealed this week Ms Hamilton-Cooper had claimed to have held an appearing principal instructor put up at Calderhead Excessive in Shotts when she utilized for a brand new job with West Lothian Council, experiences Lanarkshire Stay.
She additionally instructed them she was a college head, or principal instructor curriculum, and had been promoted to a center management job throughout her 4 years on the college, in North Lanarkshire.
She additionally lied throughout an interview about how she performed herself within the "promoted function", saying she had "developed routines, frameworks, programs, and processes and talked about her group, proudly owning that group, setting the requirements inside her personal group and main and managing that group".
Nevertheless, the reality emerged when one of many interviewers made contact with Calderhead Excessive to take a look at her references.
Ms Hamilton-Cooper agreed along with her head instructor to withdraw her software and inform colleagues the "function was too large for her for the time being".
Nevertheless, he turned involved when a short while later in February final 12 months, she utilized for an extra principal instructor job and requested him for a reference.
A report printed by the GTCS defined: "Witness 1 (headteacher) speaks to feeling unable to supply a optimistic reference for the instructor, particularly in gentle of their settlement that she wouldn't apply for additional posts for just a few years and till she had undertaken skilled improvement.
"Witness 1 additionally speaks to a priority in regards to the instructor advising a probationer instructor the right way to full an software type, which had been vastly exaggerated. The probationer instructor confirmed that the instructor had instructed him to do that. "
Hamilton-Cooper admitted the allegations in full and provided a number of apologies to everybody concerned and was given a last written warning by her employer.
The GTCS discovered her conduct amounted to breaches of professional requirements, the report added: "The panel weren't satisfied that the instructor was absolutely conscious of the seriousness of her conduct.
As well as, the panel had data from the instructor’s employer that instructed she had restricted perception into her conduct, evidenced by her making use of for an additional place and asking for a reference just a few months after the allegations, when she had agreed she would ‘maintain her head down’ and ‘develop as an expert’ earlier than maybe making use of for a task additional into the long run."
They imposed a Conditional Registration Order on her for the following 12 months to watch and management her behaviour and guarantee she takes applicable motion to forestall a repeat of her behaviour.
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