Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 7 Lead Interstitial Lung Disease (ILD) Nurse within the Respiratory Centre.

This is a fixed term post for 12 months.

The lead ILD nurse plays a key leadership role within the respiratory multidisciplinary team, providing expert clinical care, coordination, and education for patients with ILD and their families. The postholder leads on service development, clinical governance, and quality improvement initiatives to ensure high standards of evidence based care are delivered across inpatient and outpatient settings.

Essential criteria to include  Health Assessment and V300 Nurse Prescribing or already working towards.

Main duties of the job

To lead and manage the ILD nursing service, providing specialist assessment, diagnosis support and ongoing management of patients with complex ILD conditions.

Act as an expert practitioner, offering holistic care including symptom management,  medication support (e.g antifibrotics), and end of life planning where appropriate.

Co-ordinate ILD clinics and multidisciplinary team (MDT) meetings, ensuring seamless communication between respiratory physicians, radiologists, pathologists, pharmacists, and allied health professionals.

Drive continuous improvement through innovation, patient feedback, and service evaluation, ensuring the ILD service aligns with national standards and best practice.

To be accountable for :

Ensuring safe and effective clinical practice

Enhancing the patient’s experience

Ensuring effective contribution to the delivery of the organisation's objectives

Efficient and effective use of resources

Working for our organisation

The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS trusts in the West Midlands providing primary, acute and community services and we are incredibly proud of the diversity of both our staff and the communities we serve.  We are building a workforce that can help us to fulfil our values, improve quality of care for patients, and solve the health care problems of tomorrow. We’re passionate about the value that diversity of thinking and lived experience brings in enabling us to become a learning organisation and leader in delivering compassionate care for our patients.

We are delighted that we have been rated as “Good” by CQC. We have achieved numerous awards; The Nursing Times Best Diversity and Inclusion Practice and Best UK Employer of the Year for Nursing Staff in 2020.

The Trust is a supportive working environment committed to creating flexible working arrangements that suit your needs and as such will consider all requests from applicants who wish to work flexibly.