Patient Environment Assitant

Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

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Job summary

Our Nurse led Dayward is based at Royal Papworth Hospital in Cambridge. We are a fast paced environment, admitting up to 45 elective patients a day under cardiology, thoracic and surgical services.

Our nursing team is skilled and friendly working within a busy specialist ambulatory setting. We work as part of a number of multidisciplinary teams in a constantly evolving and innovative ambulatory care setting. We currently work on a Monday to Friday between 7.00 and 20.00.

This role offers a fantastic opportunity to work alongside the dayward team to ensure the clinical environment is clean and safe for our patients. You will responsible for cleaning equipment used in the ward area and assisting the nursing team in the preparation of the clinical areas.

The successful applicant will be kind and compassionate, have excellent communication skills and work well within a team. Ideally we would like individuals who are flexible about how they work and are willing to take pride in their role.

Royal Papworth Hospital is proud to employ a diverse workforce who are encouraged to use their individuality to provide exceptional and personalised patient care. We believe that our strength as an organisation relies on our ability to foster an environment which encourages using our differences as a strength.

If this sounds like the job for you and you are able to uphold our values: Compassion Excellence Collaboration, we would love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

The postholder is responsible for routine housekeeping duties within the department ensuring a clean and safe environment. This includes cleaning and maintenance of essential equipment and clinical area within the department.

You will assist with replenishing stock, reporting faults within the department and waste management.

About us

Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is the UK's leading heart and lung hospital, delivering care to more than 50,000 patients a year in its new state-of-the-art hospital in Cambridge. We perform the most heart and/or lung transplants in the UK and carried out the UK's first successful heart transplant in 1979. It also offers emergency heart attack treatment, sleep centre care and is one of just five centres nationally for those in severe respiratory failure.

Based on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus the largest centre of medical research and health science in Europe the Trust is at the heart of treatments of the future. Royal Papworth became the first hospital trust in the country to be rated outstanding in all five areas assessed by the Care Quality Commission - a rating it still holds today. The Trust holds its values of compassion, excellence & collaboration at its core, and all colleagues joining the team are expected to uphold these in their day-to-day roles & interactions. Royal Papworth is proud of its diverse workforce and encourages people to embrace their individuality.

The Trust values difference and welcomes all applications irrespective of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy & maternity, race, religion & belief, sex and sexual orientation. Providing they meet the minimum post criteria, applicants with disabilities will be offered an interview.

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Date posted

24 April 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 2

Salary

£22,383 a year

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

175-2425-2-DW541

Job locations

Royal Papworth Hospital

Papworth Road

Cambridge Bio Medical Campus

Cambridge

CB2 0AY

Job description

Job responsibilities

On this page you will find a Role Profile which provides information about the hospital and full details about the role. We recommend that you review this and refer to it as you complete your application. Please include how you will meet the Trust Values Compassion, Excellence and Collaboration. If you would like more information about the role or working at Royal Papworth Hospital, please get in touch with the contact for this role.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Recent experience of working with the general public communicating with a range of different people

Experience

Essential

Ability to communicate with colleagues on everyday organisational matters
Ability to work under supervision
Demonstrate the ability to organise and manage own workload effectively
Ability to treat all information confidentially
Ability to work within a team and to take instruction
Ability to achieve work under pressure
Ability to communicate information verbally
Able to write and record relevant information

Additional Criteria

Essential

Please provide evidence of your commitment to uphold the Trust's values: Compassion, Excellence, Collaboration

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Recent experience of working with the general public communicating with a range of different people

Experience

Essential

Ability to communicate with colleagues on everyday organisational matters
Ability to work under supervision
Demonstrate the ability to organise and manage own workload effectively
Ability to treat all information confidentially
Ability to work within a team and to take instruction
Ability to achieve work under pressure
Ability to communicate information verbally
Able to write and record relevant information

Additional Criteria

Essential

Please provide evidence of your commitment to uphold the Trust's values: Compassion, Excellence, Collaboration

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.