Job overview

·         This post will provide a comprehensive highly specialist service to patients with Interstitial Lung Disease. They will act as an expert and resources for members of the multi-disciplinary team

·         The post holder will provide specialist clinical leadership within this area of care and will lead and develop specialist education

·         The post holder will act as the key worker and liaise with other healthcare professional to provide the best possible specialist care for their patients

·         Develop nurse led clinics

·         Lead on delivering national standards including Respiratory services specifications for ILD patients and shared care decision making

Main duties of the job

• Perform comprehensive physical health assessments for patients presenting with suspected or confirmed Interstitial Lung Disease, including acute exacerbations.
• Evaluate clinical risk and determine suitability for discharge, urgent respiratory review, or hospital admission, ensuring safeguarding and holistic needs are addressed.
• Discuss potential treatment options with patients and carers — including antifibrotic therapy, corticosteroids, immunosuppressants, oxygen therapy, pulmonary rehabilitation, and symptom‑management strategies — supporting shared decision‑making.
• Prescribe appropriate medications 
• Provide tailored education to patients and carers on ILD self‑management, symptom recognition, flare management, pacing, breathlessness strategies, and when to seek help.
• Ensure appropriate follow‑up is arranged, including ILD clinic review, radiology, lung function testing, community respiratory support, or palliative care involvement where appropriate.
• Identify patients who may benefit from onward referral to pulmonary rehabilitation, smoking cessation support, long‑term oxygen therapy assessment, palliative care services, or specialist ILD multidisciplinary team review, and complete referrals accordingly.
• Work closely with the ILD MDT, community respiratory teams, and virtual ward services to highlight patients suitable for remote monitoring, early supported discharge, or admission avoidance pathways

Working for our organisation

University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust is one of the largest and most modern in the country. Based across two sites, Royal Stoke in Stoke-on-Trent and County Hospital in Stafford, we are proud to serve around three million people and we're highly regarded for our facilities, teaching and research. We are the specialist centre for major trauma for the North Midlands and North Wales.

All of our employees make a valuable contribution regardless of role here at UHNM and we are proud of our wide range of development packages aimed at ensuring that everyone has the opportunity to fulfil their true potential. 

UHNM create and encourage a culture of inclusion, providing equal opportunities for career development that are fair and transparent. We are committed to being a diverse and inclusive employer and foster a culture in which all staff feel valued and respected. In return we ask all of our employees to make a commitment to the values, co-created by or staff, patients and carers, and that unite us as a Trust.

At University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust we know that investing in, supporting and developing our staff has a direct impact on the quality of care that we deliver. Our employees are as important as our patients and the population that we serve.