HCPC determination — substantive hearing
Formally warned
The regulator’s term: warning
What does “formally warned” mean?
A formal warning is a note on the practitioner's record. It does not restrict practice but tells the public that the regulator considered the conduct to have fallen below expected standards.
Concerning Benjamin Slocombe, occupational therapist (HCPC OT087024).
Decision date: 23 January 2026 · Hearing started 23 January 2026
In plain English
The HCPTS panel decided that Benjamin Slocombe should be subject to the published outcome from a final hearing. The panel issued a caution or warning. The public page records the profession, registration number, allegation, finding, order, notes and hearing history for source verification.
Charges
The HCPTS allegation section states: and the facts found proved, would public confidence in the profession and how it is regulated be undermined if there were to be no finding of impairment? 56. The Registrant has taken meaningful and effective steps to avoid a future repetition of the misconduct and there has been no repetition of it in the period since March 2023 and no evidence of unsafe practice. 57. The Panel acknowledges that the misconduct occurred in acute circumstances affecting the Registrant’s private and family life. 58. However, the Registrant knew at the time that his actions were wrong. His wholly dishonest conduct in applying for and taking the post of Disability Assessor posed a real risk to the health and safety of the public as a result of his want of the basic experience required to perform that role, with the real prospect of harm to service users, as the Panel has already explained, and to other members of the public. Members of the public would be appalled to learn that the Registrant had so dishonestly put himself into the position of being able to carry out the disability assessments that are so important to the health, safety and wellbeing of those concerned. 59. By bringing the profession into disrepute in this manner in disregard of fundamental principles of registered practice, the Panel has concluded that despite the matters in favour of the Registrant, a finding of impaired fitness to practise is necessary to uphold professional standards so as to show that this sort of very serious misconduct is completely unacceptable. A finding of impairment is, in all the circumstances, necessary to maintain public confidence in the profession and so as to prevent the undermining of that public confidence and its regulation. 60. The Registrant’s fitness to practise is impaired in...
Findings
The HCPTS page records a final hearing for Benjamin Slocombe by the Conduct and Competence Committee. The panel issued a caution or warning. The allegation section states: and the facts found proved, would public confidence in the profession and how it is regulated be undermined if there were to be no finding of impairment? 56. The Registrant has taken meaningful and effective steps to.... The order section states: comes into effect. Notes No.
Source
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