Patient Environment Assistant

Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

The closing date is 12 May 2025

Job summary

We have an exciting opportunity to join the Respiratory Team on 4 South at Royal Papworth Hospital.

Our team is a busy specialist ward looking after patients with various respiratory diseases.

Our wards focus and aim is always to provide care of the highest quality to our patients and as a patient environment assistant you'd be playing a key part in that.

We serve a diverse patient population and are dedicated to working together ensuring we're providing the best service possible and are at the forefront of clinical excellence.

Main duties of the job

On 4 South we support patients with many different respiratory illnesses and therefore a comfortable and clean patient environment is essential.

Your role will be varied and includes working directly with the nursing team, meeting patients day to day and ensuring a clean and safe environment. This includes cleaning and maintenance of essential equipment and clinical areas within the ward.

The skills we are looking for are attention to detail, tact, patience, accurate data entry, the ability to liaise with colleagues throughout the hospital and beyond, conscientious and excellent verbal communication skills.

You should be enthusiastic to work within an environmental maintenance role, have some customer care or office experience with an understanding of what this entails and be able to contribute positively to the patient pathway.

The shift times are 07:00am-15:00pm and 10:00am-18:00pm. Flexible working will be considered.

Applicants should refer to the Role Profile attached to advert for full information about the role

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

30 April 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 2

Salary

£24,169 to £24,169 a year

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

175-2526-2-TW1231

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

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

Desirable

NHS experience in acute hospital environment

Additional Criteria

Essential

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

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

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

Desirable

NHS experience in acute hospital environment

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.