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Job summary
This is an exciting 6-month secondment opportunity to gain experience across multiple specialist services within the Nursing Directorate. The role provides a unique development opportunity to work across Nurse Recruitment, the ALERT Team, Resuscitation Services, supporting key operational and training functions.
The postholder will work in different settings, developing a broad understanding of workforce coordination, service delivery and education. This is an ideal opportunity for someone looking to broaden their administrative skills, gain exposure to multiple teams, and contribute to improving patient care through effective organisational support.
This role spans three core service areas:
*Nurse Recruitment & Temporary Staffing -- supporting recruitment activity, coordinating events, working with universities and external partners, and assisting with onboarding processes for new staff
*ALERT Team (Acute Response Team) -- managing staffing rosters, coordinating training compliance, supporting senior nursing staff with diary management, and ensuring safe service provision
*Resuscitation Services -- organising and supporting life support training courses, liaising with internal and external faculty, managing bookings, and maintaining training records and course logistics
The role requires close collaboration with clinical teams, senior nurses, external organisations, and education providers, with a strong emphasis on coordination, communication, and service support across all three areas.
Main duties of the job
Main Duties and Responsibilities
The postholder will undertake a varied and dynamic workload, including:
*Coordinating recruitment activity, including organising recruitment events, liaising with universities and external stakeholders, and supporting onboarding for new staff
*Managing staffing and rostering for the ALERT service, ensuring appropriate cover, maintaining records such as annual leave and training compliance, and producing workforce reports
*Supporting the delivery of resuscitation training, including planning and coordinating life support courses, managing bookings, preparing materials, and assisting on training days
*Maintaining accurate records and databases, including training data, recruitment information, and financial/course records
*Providing comprehensive administrative support, including diary management for senior staff, inbox management, organising meetings, and taking minutes
*Liaising with a wide range of stakeholders, both internal and external, to ensure smooth coordination of services and events
*Supporting financial processes, such as handling course payments, raising requisitions, and maintaining financial records
*Contributing to service improvement, identifying opportunities to enhance processes and support delivery across all areas
This role requires strong organisational skills, attention to detail, and the ability to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.
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: 21 July 2026
- Pay scheme: Agenda for change
- Band: Band 4
- Salary: £28,392 to £31,157 a year
- Contract: Secondment
- Duration: 6 months
- Working pattern: Full-time
- Reference number: 175-2627-CA1853
- Job locations: Royal Papworth Hospital, Papworth Road, Cambridge Bio Medical Campus, Cambridge, CB2 0AY, United Kingdom
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
Experience
Essential
- A broad range of work procedures and practices, predominantly nonroutine, requiring theoretical knowledge.
- Good keyboard skills including experience of using a range of Microsoft Office Applications Inc. Excel, PowerPoint and Word.
- Excellent administrative skills for example, managing general queries, diary management, room bookings, arranging meetings, taking notes and writing up action plans, document management, preparing PowerPoint slides.
- Experience of supporting projects
- Able to store and manage data to produce reports and information useful for analysis and tracking progress to ensure effectiveness.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to be able to problem solve, use own initiative in planning and prioritise own workload.
Qualifications
Essential
- Demonstrable knowledge of administrative procedures, including specialised IT systems, project management, and training practices, gained through formal training or experience equivalent to a level 4 diploma.
- GCSE passes in English & Maths
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.
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This advert is for Senior Administrator Nurse Recruitment Alert and Resuscitation Team with Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in Cambridge, East of England, England. It is listed as a Band 4 Administrative and IT role. The advertised salary is £28,392 to £31,157 a year. The contract type is Secondment. The application deadline is 02 Aug 2026.
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