Patient Environment Assistant - 4 North
The closing date is 5th Oct 2026
Job summary
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Join our team at Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Are you passionate about providing outstanding patient care and creating a clean, welcoming, and safe environment? We are looking for a motivated and reliable Patient Environment Assistant (PEA) to join our dedicated team on our busy Respiratory Ward.
Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is a world\-leading specialist heart and lung hospital, renowned for delivering exceptional patient care, pioneering research, and innovation. Our state\-of\-the\-art facilities provide an outstanding environment for both patients and staff, and we are proud of our reputation for excellence
Main duties, tasks \& skills required
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What we ask for from you
At Royal Papworth, we pride ourselves on our values. We expect all our staff to uphold our values of compassion, excellence and collaboration at all times. This means that we are committed to recruiting the right people to create the best working environment: people with the skills, behaviours, and competencies to achieve and support high standards of patient care in a specialist centre, pioneering interventions, and improvements.
Royal Papworth Hospital is proud to employ a diverse workforce who are encouraged to use their individuality in their work. We believe that our success as an organisation relies on our ability to foster an environment which encourages using our differences as a strength. We work to ensure that these differences are protected and that everyone is treated with respect, kindness and dignity at all times. We empower staff to promote an environment of speaking up, to understand bias and to ensure that our workplace remains free from discrimination.
What you can expect from us
we have many exciting programmes and initiatives that are ongoing, helping us to deliver our strategic objective to deliver the best staff experience in the NHS.
About us
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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.
For a street view tour: https://royalpapworth.nhs.uk/virtual\-tour
Job description
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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.
Person specification
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Qualifications
Essential
See role profile
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
As well as being able to demonstrate examples of how they work in a way that is consistent with our values of compassion, excellence and collaboration the successful candidate will be able to clearly demonstrate a commitment to driving culture change through equality, diversity and inclusion.
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.
For help with your application, contact:
Charlene Johnson\-Jeffreys
charlene.johnson@nhs.net
01223638365
Pay scheme
Agenda for Change
Band
Band 2
Salary
£25272\.00 Yearly
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full\-Time
Reference number
175\-2627\-1938
Job locations
Royal Papworth Hospital
Papworth Road
Cambridge Bio Medical Campus
Cambridge
CB2 0AY
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