Patient Environment Assistant

Job summary

Do you want to try working in a ward environment? This is the perfect opportunity to join Royal Papworth in a role where you are working and supporting the ward team but not having to provide direct patient care. This role will give you exposure to working in a ward environment and make a difference in patient care without being directly involved.

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 youd be playing a key part in that.

We serve a diverse patient population and are dedicated to working together ensuring were 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

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 and collaboration at its core, and all colleagues joining the team are expected to uphold these in their day-to-day roles and 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 and maternity, race, religion and 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 Biomedical Campus

Cambridge

Cambridgeshire

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 Biomedical Campus

Cambridge

Cambridgeshire

CB2 0AY

Employer's website

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

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