Job summary

The Workforce Directorate of the Trust take great pride in the high quality services we offer and the support we provide to our clinical and medical colleagues across the organisation. We are a passionate, values led, supportive and friendly team who achieve great outcomes through our responsive, innovative and can do approach.

If you are interested in commencing a role in Human Resources, we have a wonderful opportunity to enable you to kick-start a fantastic career.

The role will be based at the Hospital and in addition to working with different teams, the postholder will offer consistent support on our departmental front desk at the hospital.

It is important that you are able to multi-task, manage your own workload and respond to changing priorities.

We can promise you a rewarding role where no two days are alike.

Please note the role profile is subject to consistency checking with the job evaluation panel.

Main duties of the job

To provide a friendly, high quality and efficient administrative service to the Workforce Directorate based at Royal Papworth Hospital including diary management, photocopying and responding to emails under the direction of departmental managers.

To greet and guide visitors to Workforce and providing a signposting service.

To provide support to the Employee Relations and Medical Staffing teams, as directed.

To support preparation of Trust ID badges, access and smartcard allocation and support Recruitment and Medical Staffing teams during onboarding.

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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