Patient Environment Assistant

Job summary

Our combined Outpatient Department is based at Royal Papworth Hospital in Cambridge. We have a 30 room Outpatient Department and facilitate the ongoing care and management of patients with chronic diseases including Cystic Fibrosis, Pulmonary Hypertension, thoracic oncology, pre and post cardiac and lung transplantation and cardiac failure patients.

Our nursing team is small, skilled and friendly working within a busy specialist ambulatory care outpatient 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 07:30am and 18:30pm.

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

Main duties of the job

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 learn about infection control, its importance and how it relates to the 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.

For further information or an informal conversation, please contact:

Charge Nurse Lee Brooks or Deputy Sister Sara Farmer; 07775 555620

Closing date: Monday 15th December 2025

Interview date: Monday 12th January 2026

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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Employer details

Employer name

Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Royal Papworth Hospital

Papworth Road

Cambridge Bio Medical Campus

Cambridge

CB2 0AY

Employer's website

https://royalpapworth.nhs.uk/working-here (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Royal Papworth Hospital

Papworth Road

Cambridge Bio Medical Campus

Cambridge

CB2 0AY

Employer's website

https://royalpapworth.nhs.uk/working-here (Opens in a new tab)

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