diff --git a/modules/custom_operations/tests/CMakeLists.txt b/modules/custom_operations/tests/CMakeLists.txt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e69de29bb
diff --git a/modules/custom_operations/user_ie_extensions/paged_attention/paged_attention.cpp b/modules/custom_operations/user_ie_extensions/paged_attention/paged_attention.cpp
index 388b869b3..bf574457e 100644
--- a/modules/custom_operations/user_ie_extensions/paged_attention/paged_attention.cpp
+++ b/modules/custom_operations/user_ie_extensions/paged_attention/paged_attention.cpp
@@ -186,21 +186,6 @@ ov::Tensor generate_attention_mask(const std::int32_t num_seqs, const std::int32
     }
 }
 
-// similar to torch.Tensor.view
-ov::Tensor view_as_3d(ov::Tensor tensor) {
-    ov::Shape shape = tensor.get_shape();
-    OPENVINO_ASSERT(shape.size() == 4);
-    const std::uint32_t batch_size = shape[0], seq_len = shape[1], num_heads = shape[2], head_size = shape[3];
-    return ov::Tensor(tensor.get_element_type(), ov::Shape({batch_size, seq_len, num_heads * head_size}), tensor.data());
-}
-
-ov::Tensor view_as_4d(ov::Tensor tensor, std::uint32_t num_heads, std::uint32_t head_size) {
-    ov::Shape shape = tensor.get_shape();
-    const std::uint32_t batch_size = shape[0], seq_len = shape[1];
-    OPENVINO_ASSERT(shape.size() == 3 && num_heads * head_size == shape[3]);
-    return ov::Tensor(tensor.get_element_type(), ov::Shape({batch_size, seq_len, num_heads, head_size}), tensor.data());
-}
-
 bool TemplateExtension::PagedAttention::evaluate(ov::TensorVector& outputs, const ov::TensorVector& inputs) const {
     ov::Tensor query = inputs[0], key = inputs[1], value = inputs[2];
     ov::Shape query_shape = query.get_shape();
@@ -212,10 +197,10 @@ bool TemplateExtension::PagedAttention::evaluate(ov::TensorVector& outputs, cons
     ov::Tensor context_lens = inputs[8];
     ov::Tensor block_tables = inputs[9];
 
-    // reshape to [batch_size, seq_len, num_heads/m_num_kv_heads, head_size] from [batch_size, seq_len, num_heads/m_num_kv_heads * head_size]
-    query = view_as_4d(query, m_num_heads, m_head_size);
-    key = view_as_4d(key, m_num_kv_heads, m_head_size);
-    value = view_as_4d(value, m_num_kv_heads, m_head_size);
+    // reshape to [batch_size * seq_len, m_num_kv_heads, head_size] from [batch_size, seq_len, num_heads/m_num_kv_heads * head_size]
+    query.set_shape({batch_size * seq_len, m_num_heads, m_head_size});
+    key.set_shape({batch_size * seq_len, m_num_kv_heads, m_head_size});
+    value.set_shape(key.get_shape());
 
     // put current K, V values into key_cache and value_cache
     reshape_and_cache(key, value, key_cache, value_cache, slot_mapping);
@@ -225,6 +210,12 @@ bool TemplateExtension::PagedAttention::evaluate(ov::TensorVector& outputs, cons
     outputs[0].set_shape(query.get_shape());
 
     if (is_prompt) {
+        // reshape to [batch_size, seq_len, m_num_kv_heads, head_size]
+        query.set_shape({batch_size, seq_len, m_num_heads, m_head_size});
+        outputs[0].set_shape(query.get_shape());
+        key.set_shape({batch_size, seq_len, m_num_kv_heads, m_head_size});
+        value.set_shape(key.get_shape());
+
         auto attention_mask = generate_attention_mask(batch_size, max_context_len, context_lens);
         ov::Tensor scale(ov::element::f32, ov::Shape{1}, (void *)&m_scale);
 
@@ -237,6 +228,7 @@ bool TemplateExtension::PagedAttention::evaluate(ov::TensorVector& outputs, cons
 
         m_prefill_request.infer();
     } else {
+        // 'query' and 'output' are expected to be [batch_size * seq_len, m_num_kv_heads, head_size]
         paged_attention_v1_cpu(outputs[0],
             query, key_cache, value_cache,
             m_num_kv_heads, m_scale,
@@ -244,8 +236,8 @@ bool TemplateExtension::PagedAttention::evaluate(ov::TensorVector& outputs, cons
             m_block_size, max_context_len);
     }
 
-    // reshape
-    outputs[0] = view_as_3d(outputs[0]);
+    // reshape back to [batch_size, seq_len, num_heads * head_size]
+    outputs[0].set_shape(query_shape); // works like reshape
 
     return true;
 }