- Keyboard warrior Clayton Blight, 47, of Cardiff banned from work as paramedic
- Overlooked for job as special operations manager at Welsh Ambulance Service
- Blight called his co-workers ‘snidey, backstabbing and a*** kissing’
Former Welsh Ambulance Service worker Clayton Blight, 47, of Cardiff was struck off from the Health Care Professionals Council register
A foul-mouthed paramedic has been struck off for Facebook bullying NHS colleagues – because he didn’t get a promotion.
Keyboard warrior Clayton Blight, 47, called colleagues “fat, bald and hopelessly unqualified”, and labelled others “muppets” in a series of posts.
In another rant “cyber bully” Blight called his co-workers “snidey, backstabbing and a*** kissing”.
A misconduct panel ruled Blight should be banned from working as a paramedic – and struck him from the Health Care Professionals Council register.
A hearing was told Blight took to social media after being overlooked for a promotion to special operations manager at the Welsh Ambulance Service – which went to colleague Ben Collins.
He then began trolling Mr Collins online – and also targeted his former boss Christopher Sims.
Blight wrote: “I find it amazing how muppets work so well with someone’s hand up their a*** controlling them.”
Blight was originally suspended for six months in November last year after being found guilty of ten allegations.
Panel member Ian Comfort said: “Blight demonstrated a continuing theme of cyber-bullying Mr Sims over a considerable period of time.
A hearing was told Blight took to social media after being overlooked for a promotion to special operations manager at the Welsh Ambulance Service – which went to colleague Ben Collins
“His conduct had the intention of belittling, humiliating and undermining Mr Sims as a person and his authority at work to colleagues and to the wider public.”
But Blight’s abuse continued even after his suspension so his ex-colleagues reported him.
He then faced a second hearing this month in Cardiff and his name has now been struck off the HCPC register.
Blight didn’t attend either of the hearings in Cardiff and had no legal representation.
Chair Janet Fisher said: “The risk represented by Mr Blight remained. There was nothing to satisfy the Panel that this conduct would not be repeated if he were permitted to return to practice.”
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