Director, Arise Nursing, Adesola Olawale serves as both the Registered Manager and Responsible Individual for Arise Nursing. Through a clearly defined governance framework that ensures effective oversight, accountability, transparency, and regulatory compliance, she provides strategic leadership while maintaining an unwavering focus on delivering safe, high-quality, person-centred care.
With more than 26 years of experience across health and social care, Adesola has established herself as a respected and influential leader within the sector. Her professional journey began as a domiciliary care assistant, where she developed a deep appreciation for the importance of supporting individuals to maintain their independence, dignity, and quality of life within their own homes and communities. These early experiences shaped her enduring belief that exceptional care is built on compassion, respect, patience, and truly listening to people.
Driven by a passion for improving outcomes for vulnerable individuals, Adesola progressed academically through an Access programme before obtaining a BSc (Hons) in Adult Nursing from the University of Suffolk, then University Campus Suffolk. More recently, she completed an MSc in Healthcare Leadership at the University of Warwick. Her master’s research explored how effective leadership within domiciliary care services promotes safer, person-centred practice for older spousal caregivers. Through this work, she examined the influence of leadership behaviours, organisational culture, and workforce support on the quality and safety of care delivered within people’s homes. Her academic achievements reflect her commitment to continuously improving standards of care and strengthening leadership within the sector.
Throughout her nursing career, Adesola has gained extensive frontline clinical experience within demanding emergency care environments, including the Emergency Department at the Royal United Hospital Bath, The Grange University Hospital, and the University Hospital of Wales. Working in fast-paced settings strengthened her expertise in safeguarding, risk management, emergency response, multidisciplinary collaboration, clinical governance, and delivering compassionate care during times of crisis. These experiences reinforced her belief that every individual deserves to feel heard, respected, safe, and empowered, regardless of their circumstances.
In addition to her leadership role within domiciliary care, Adesola is the Director of Arise Nursing Recruitment Agency, which has successfully provided temporary healthcare staffing solutions across England, Scotland, and Wales for more than five years. This experience has enhanced her expertise in workforce planning, robust recruitment, compliance management, staff retention, and the development of resilient staffing models capable of supporting diverse healthcare settings.
One of Adesola’s greatest passions is workforce development. She firmly believes that carers are skilled professionals whose contribution to society should be recognised and valued. Under her leadership, Arise Nursing has developed a culture that prioritises meaningful training, continuous professional development, and staff empowerment. Through the organisation’s flagship training programme, The Essence of Care, carers receive face-to-face learning designed to simplify complex aspects of care delivery while developing the confidence, emotional intelligence, and practical competence required to provide outstanding support. The programme is delivered across major cities including Glasgow, Manchester, London, and South Wales, complemented by a comprehensive programme of online learning to ensure staff remain current with legislation, best practice guidance, safeguarding responsibilities, and specialist clinical skills.
Over the past two years, Adesola has successfully transformed Arise Nursing’s domiciliary care service from a small team supporting a handful of individuals into a recognised provider delivering services across South Wales through local authority partnerships within the Gwent Regional Partnership. Through strategic leadership and a clear commitment to quality, she has expanded the workforce to include carers, supervisors, coordinators, and management personnel, whilst ensuring that safety, compassion, and person-centred practice remain at the heart of service delivery.
From the inception of the service, Adesola introduced significant operational improvements that strengthened the organisation’s governance arrangements and infrastructure. These included implementing robust quality assurance systems, enhancing safeguarding practices, improving recruitment and retention processes, strengthening competency frameworks, and fostering a culture characterised by professionalism, accountability, openness, and continuous improvement.
Among her most significant achievements has been addressing one of the greatest challenges facing domiciliary care: continuity of care. Through effective workforce planning, strategic staff deployment, and relationship-centred approaches to care planning, she has transformed continuity in care from possibility into a reality. As a result, service users are consistently supported by familiar carers who understand their preferences, routines, communication styles, and personal goals. This approach has strengthened trust, improved outcomes, enhanced consistency, and increased confidence among families and professionals alike.
Adesola maintains rigorous recruitment and governance arrangements in accordance with Regulation 35(2) and Schedule 3 of the Regulation and Inspection of Social Care (Wales) Act 2016. This includes enhanced DBS checks, verification of Social Care Wales registration, employment history reviews, competency-based interviews, reference checks, regular supervision, and ensuring that all staff are appropriately trained and assessed as competent before providing care. She also ensures ongoing compliance with the expectations of Care Inspectorate Wales and Social Care Wales through effective governance oversight, quality monitoring, safeguarding systems, reflective practice, regulatory reporting, and continuous service evaluation.
Beyond her professional achievements, Adesola values the natural beauty of South Wales, often reflecting that travelling through its valleys and mountains provides perspective and a renewed appreciation of what truly matters in life, not focusing on daily human challenges. She has a passion for horses and values the discipline, trust, patience, and connection that equestrian activities encourage. She is actively involved within her church community through mentorship and community engagement and, as a devoted wife and mother, balances her personal and professional responsibilities with warmth and authenticity.
