A registered mental health nurse with 30 years experience of NHS forensic services. A national profile for leadership and innovation in forensic mental health nursing. In particular, making a key contribution to transforming the culture of women’s secure care in the UK. In general, demonstrating leadership in the delivery of compassionate care to offender populations at risk of stigma and exclusion due to their risk and emotional impact on professionals and services. Exceptional skills in the containment of emotional distress, supporting front line staff with the emotional labour of caring and in understanding and working with the dynamics of forensic care. Regular conference speaker. Recently retired from full-time NHS employment.
Responsibilities of most recent full time employment / Interim Director of Governance (Nov ’14 – March ’15)
Interim Executive Director of Nursing and Patient Experience (Dec ’12 – Nov ’14), West London Mental Health NHS Trust
- Responsibility for Trust Quality Governance
- Executive Director member of Trust Board
- Executive lead for nursing profession
- Director of Infection Control and Prevention
- Key relationship and Trust contact for Care Quality Commission
- Executive lead for implementation of the recommendations of the Francis Inquiry
- Executive lead for the implementation of the recovery approach
- Executive lead for the Trust nursing strategy
Leadership in significantly improved quality of nursing care within in-patient services for people with dementia and complex health needs
Highly successful and praised co-production model for facilitating service user and carer contribution to service delivery
Implementation of the recovery approach, including marked increase in the contribution of service user consultants, experts by experience and related co-produced programmes and projects
Improved systems for capturing, measuring, reporting and improving service user experience
Forensic Mental Health Nursing / Led the implementation of the recovery approach in medium and low secure settings
Managed co-produced staff and service user team for facilitating implementation of the recovery approach and improving service user and carer experience
Introduced robust systems for capturing, measuring and improving service user experience
Led the delivery of effective trainings to improve nursing skills to work with service user risk behaviours, including enhanced engagement and observation, boundary management and trauma and attachment workshop
Led national forensic and personality disorder conference focusing on relational security
Chaired seclusion monitoring and review group – initiated project to include service voice in decision about restrictive interventions
Led and delivered highly successful co-produced forensic recovery conferences and seminars
Women’s Services Specific
Made a key contribution to the transformation of women’s secure care in the UK by applying an attachment theory and trauma based approach to care provision
National recognition for attachment and trauma based nursing approach to the care of women with complex needs who self harm - and related training programme - see chief nursing officer’s review of mental health nursing (2006)
Lead role in the closure of women’s services in a high secure hospital and opening of enhanced medium secure and local medium secure unit for women – employing an attachment theory informed approach throughout the process
Introduced reflective forums for nurses at ward level to address the particular emotional impact of the front line care task
Clinical case load of women – specialising in supporting womenwith traumatic attachment experiences through transfers and transitions on their care pathway
Led the transformation of nursing practice within the women’s personality disorder service from a challenging, struggling service to and effective, specialised therapeutic milieu
Key Publications / Aiyegbusi, A. (2015) ‘This is the Pain I Feel!’ Projection and Emotional Pain in the Nurse – Patient Relationship with People Diagnosed with Personality Disorders in Forensic and Specialist Personality Disorder Services : Findings from a Mixed Methods Study. Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
Aiyegbusi, A. (2009) The Psychodynamics of Forensic Mental Health Nursing. International Forum of Psychoanalysis. Vol 18, Issue 1, P30-40.
Aiyegbusi, A , & Clarke – Moore, J. Eds. (2009) Therapeutic Relationships with Offenders ( An Introduction to the Psychodynamics of Forensic Mental Health Nursing . JKP. London.
Adlam, J., Aiyegbusi, A., Kleinot, P., Motz, A. & Scanlon, C. (2012) The Therapeutic Milieu Under Fire. Security and Insecurity in Forensic Mental Health. JKP. London.
Aiyegbusi, A. & Kelly, G. (2012) Professional and Therapeutic Boundaries in Forensic Mental Health Practice. JKP. London.
Professional Trainings / Awards
2014
2011
2002
2002
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1997
1982 / Diploma in Group Work Practice. Institute of Group Analysis.
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD). Middlesex University / Tavistock Centre.
Diploma in Forensic Psychotherapeutic Studies. Portman Clinic / UCL.
Trained in the use of the Adult Attachment Interview (AAI : Main and George 1998) and international rater reliability assessment UCL/ UCLA.
Post Graduate Certificate in Education (PGCE). University of Huddersfield
MSc – Forensic Behavioural Science. University of Liverpool.
Registered Mental Health Nurse (RMN). Salford School of Nursing.
Personal interests / Reading, mainly biographies and black and Irish literature.
Creative writing
Learning to play the saxophone
Travel
Personal details
Age
Home address
Tele
Email / 13.03.60
12 Cheney Court
104 Pinewood Ave
Crowthorne
Berkshire
07877 677332
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