Patient Environment Assistant - 4 North

Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Patient Environment Assistant - 4 North

The closing date is 05 October 2026

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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 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.

For a street view tour: https://royalpapworth.nhs.uk/virtual-tour

Details

Date posted

22 September 2026

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 2

Salary

£25,272 a year

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

United Kingdom

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

Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Hiring Manager

Charlene Johnson-Jeffreys

charlene.johnson@nhs.net

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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, 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., 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