About this role
Job summary
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 of the job
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
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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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.
Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
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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.
Employer details Employer name Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Address Royal Papworth Hospital
Papworth Road
Cambridge Bio Medical Campus
Cambridge
CB2 0AY
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://royalpapworth.nhs.uk/working-here (Opens in a new tab)