A carer who posted on Facebook about a "Sunday sesh" before calling in sick to work has been struck off.

Gemma Drew, who was a care assistant at Alexandra Court Care Home in Glasgow, faced a catalogue of charges, dating between December 2013 and December 2014, before a misconduct committee.

Drew attended a hearing of the Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) earlier in June after she was previously convicted of two criminal offences but failed to declare them to her employer.

The SSSC charge also said the former care assistant did "state to your employer you could not attend work due to you being ill when instead you were out socialising and in doing so you were dishonest."

It was found that on December 7, 2014, Drew was out with friends and posted the phrase "Sunday sesh" on Facebook before calling in sick at around midnight.

She told bosses she would be off because of a sore back but then took to social media once again with another post stating: "So sober."

Papers from her misconduct hearing state: "On December 7, 2014 at 9.48pm a post was added to your Facebook page stating "Sunday sesh".

"At midnight on December 7, 2014 going into December 8, 2014 you telephoned your workplace and advised that you would be absent from work on December 8, giving a sore back as the reason.

"On December 8 at 12.34am a post was added to your Facebook page stating "So sober". In acting as you did at finding of fact 13, you were dishonest."

The panel ruled she should be struck off as a result of the misconduct and stated it was "satisfied that a removal order was a proportionate response", adding that it recognised "it was possible that financial or reputational hardship might arise for you."

The ruling went on: "However considered that any hardship to you as a result of the making of a Removal Order was outweighed by the need to protect members of the public and the wider public interest.

"There was no other way to protect the public and serve the wider public interest of maintaining confidence in the social service workforce and the council as the regulator."