AIBU to suggest a colleague discloses a possible registration investigation?

[Omgheslikethat]

To advise a colleague who has applied for a job with a different employer to declare she has been referred to the body who is responsible for our registration.

I don't want to say which registration body as its very outing.

I suggested if she gets offered the job, she should tell prospective employer there may be an investigation.

Other colleagues have advised her to say nothing.

Unless it is a legal requirement, I would leave it after suggesting she be honest and transparent. She is presumably an adult and will have to take responsibility for any outcomes or repercussions.

If healthcare-related, then disclosure is mandatory.

Only you know the severity of not disclosing. Investigation doesn’t mean guilt, but we won’t know that to advise accordingly.

I’m a midwife and it is always part of the interview questions where I work if you have been subject to any hearings or disciplinaries

If not disclosed and she starts the job she could be sacked on the spot and potentially charged with fraud

Yes, I've told her my opinion and she's an adult so she can make her own choices. I just wondered if my advice was out of kilter with reality these days.

Thanks to those that replied.

Very recently, a former colleague took a job with another NHS trust. Said colleague failed to disclose that upon leaving former trust, they were the subject of an internal investigation. New employer got wind of it* and their new contract promptly terminated.

*I suspect some sour grapes on this too, colleague pissed a lot of people off and there were other members of staff just waiting to sing like a canary.

Which would, ironically, likely lead to a further investigation.
I can't believe someone in authority, e.g.department manager, thinks its a good idea to say nothing.

Obvs not to say anything until job offered unless specially asked would seems reasonable though.

Was that a midwife who locked staff in a room during meetings and stood blocking the door and would stand in the middle of the ward quizzing staff until they cried.

No. But that sounds horrendous.