Biography

Current role: Lecturer in Mental Health Nursing and Professional Lead.

PhD student, MSc, Health Care Education; Nurse Teacher (NMC recorded), Advanced Diploma Nursing Studies (Mental Health), (RMN); (Level 6), modules in Education, Administration, Planning and Policy Studies, Diploma in Education (Schools).

I am a Registered Mental Health nurse (RMN) with extensive experience in dealing with individuals with mental health problems; my area of speciality is in acute inpatient care.  Working with service users in inpatient settings highlighted the need to reduce restrictive practices in mental health, hence a supporter and advocate of the Safewards model.

My teaching journey started in (1993) when I trained as a primary school teacher then as a registered nurse teacher (NMC) in 2010. I teach both in pre and post registration nursing programs.

I am currently undertaking PhD studies at Keele University sponsored by the School of Nursing & Midwifery, Keele University. The focus of my thesis is on group clinical supervision in acute inpatient mental health environments using a Participatory Action Research approach.

Research and scholarship

Research Interest

• Qualitative Research
• Action Research
• Participatory Action Research
• Clinical supervision
• Computerized data analysis system (NVIVO)

Teaching

Teaching

• Pre-registration nursing
• Post registration nursing
• Mental Health nursing
• Perinatal mental health
• Child & Adolescent mental health
• Dissertation Supervision
• Care planning
• Inter-professional Education (IPE)
• Delivering mental health training
• Interested in new teaching methods

Further information

• Link lecturer for clinical placements
• Project management
• I have an honorary contract with Derbyshire Mental Health Foundation Trust
• Member of Action Research group, NHS BME group
• Member of Safewards International Leadership and Management group
• Ethics committee member in the school of Nursing & Midwifery
• Member of the Mental Health Academics group
• Co-ordinator for Advanced Inter-professional Education (IPE)
• Co-ordinator for Nursing & Midwifery careers convention for final year students

Publications

Poster presentation:  Simbani, S. and Wardle, P .Taking Google to the classroom: Teaching the Mental Health Act to nursing students in a UK university: Innovation Nation event, North Staffordshire Conference Centre (2018).

Workshop presentation:  Simbani, S. and Wardle, P. Taking Google to the classroom: Teaching the Mental Health Act to nursing students in a UK university.  24th International Mental Health Nursing Research conference (MHNR), Manchester, UK (2018).

Guest speaker: Safewards Inspirational Conference.  Aarhus, Denmark (March, 2016).

Journal article: Brewer, A. Beech, R. Simbani, S. (2017) Using de- escalation strategies to prevent aggressive behaviour.  Mental Health Practice 21, 2, 22-28.

Guest speaker: Safewards Inspirational Conference.  Aarhus, Denmark (Sept 2016).

Guest speaker: Safewards Inspirational Conference.   Mental Health Services in the Region of Southern, Middelfart Denmark, (2016).

Poster presentation: A collaborative approach to discharge planning: An Educational perspective. 22nd International Network for psychiatric Nursing (NPNR) conference, Nottingham, UK. (2016).