Patient Environmental Assistant
The closing date is 11 January 2026
Job summary
Are you looking to work with patients on a ward without having to provide 'hands-on' care?
Are you looking to start working in a hospital environment?
We currently have a vacancy within our Surgical and Transplant team who are based on the Fifth floor at Royal Papworth Hospital.
The post within the team is fundamental in ensuring that the patients' experience is always a positive one. You will work closely with the Ward nursing team to support the achievement of an excellent standard of care on the wards for in-patients by providing a robust system of cleaning and maintenance of essential equipment and clinical areas within the wards.
You will also be required to support the storage and documentation of patients' property and valuables in accordance with hospital policy and procedure and complete audits to improve future patient care.
Main duties of the job
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, excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to make yourself understood on a telephone with a professional and respectful manner.
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 is able to contribute positively to the patient pathway.
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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Details
Date posted
29 December 2025
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 2
Salary
£24,465 to £24,465 a year
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time, Part-time
Reference number
175-2526-SW1382
Job locations
Royal Papworth Hospital
Papworth Road
Cambridge Bio Medical Campus
Cambridge
CB2 0AY
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
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Employer contact details
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