# Specialist Nurse (Spinal)

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for The Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** The Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust
- **Location:** The Walton Centre
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** Clinical nurse specialist
- **Grade:** Band 6
- **Salary:** £39,959 - £48,117 Per annum
- **Contract type:** Secondment: 12 months (Mat leave cover)
- **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week (5-day working)
- **Closing date:** 2026-08-28T23:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-08-14T13:00:33.861Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Merseyside/Liverpool/The_Walton_Centre_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Neurosurgery/Neurosurgery-v8208347
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8208347?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.thewaltoncentre.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

- As a Spinal Associate Specialist Nurse, you will be responsible for the provision of care for patients undergoing spinal surgery on both elective and emergency pathways, enhancing the patient experience from the pre-operative referral period through to out-patient period.
- Assisting surgeons, utilising decision making and clinical judgement skills, organising and ordering diagnostic tests, undertaking physical examinations, clerking, adhering to policies and protocols and recording comprehensive nursing assessments.

Providing specialist spinal nursing service for patients undergoing spinal and orthopaedic procedures, both inpatient and outpatient and support nursing staff to develop their knowledge and skills within the speciality.

### Main duties of the job

Please see the job description and person specification document for detailed information about the job description for this vacancy.

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

### Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

## Person Specification

### Qualifications

**Essential**

- First Level Registered Nurse
- Current NMC registration
- Diploma
- Teaching and assessing qualification
- Clinical examination Level 7

**Desirable**

- Post registration qualification in specialist area

### Skills and Attributes

**Essential**

- Ability to communicate in a variety of settings with patients of varying levels of understanding
- Able to present written information in a logical manner
- Committed to raising standards in clinical areas

**Desirable**

- Intermediate IT skills in word processing and spreadsheets

### Knowledge & Experience

**Essential**

- Previous acute spinal/orthopaedic or neuroscience experience
- Previous pre-op assessment experience
- Evidence of ongoing/recent post registration development
- Experience of teaching and assessing in the clinical area
- Experience in the supervision of junior nursing staff
- Participation in service development and implementation of change
- Knowledge of professional and NHS issues, and policy relating to specialist area
- Able to perform comprehensive patient assessment, plan, implement and evaluate nursing care

**Desirable**

- Broad range of clinical experience and experience in specialty or related area

## Documents

- [band 6 spinal nurse jd (pdf, 256.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10515230)
- [personal specification band 6 spinal nurse (pdf, 136.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10515231)

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