Salary
Competitive hourly rate plus excellent benefits
Profession
Engineer
Deadline
25 Sep 2026
Contract Type
Bank
Posted Date
06 Jul 2026
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Job requirements

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Essential

4 listed

Requirements the employer expects applicants to meet.

  • Qualifications

    Practical person with an ability to solve problems

  • Qualifications

    Excellent communication skills

  • Qualifications

    Ability to work in a fast-paced role

  • Qualifications

    Fast learner with an eye for detail

Desirable

Not listed in the available specification.

Bank Engineer | Manchester | Private Hospital | Flexible working hours | Zero hour contract | Competitive hourly rate plus excellent benefits

Spire Manchester Hospital are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated Engineer to join our established maintenance team on a bank/occasional basis.

At Spire Healthcare, caring is our passion, and our vision is to be recognised as a world class healthcare business. We’re committed to looking after people, both patients and colleagues.

Spire Manchester Hospital offers a comprehensive range of specialist treatments in purpose-built private hospital facilities in Didsbury. Part of the award-winning Spire healthcare group, we’re world-class experts offering fast access to specialised and personalised healthcare using some of the latest diagnostic and treatment technologies.

Working Hours: As and when needed, flexibility required

Contract Type: Bank/Zero hours

As Bank Engineer, you will be working within the engineering team to maintain grounds, building fabric, building services and all equipment in a cost-effective manor, ensuring compliance with all current National legislation and Spire policies.

Duties and responsibilities (not limited):

  • Responding to ad-hoc maintenance requests across the hospital
  • Engineering Maintenance and breakdown support to the hospital
  • Work from fault logs and allocate tasks within area of responsibility
  • Undertaking regular training alongside our experienced engineers

What you need to have?

  • Served a recognised apprenticeship in Electrical / Mechanical Engineering
  • Extensive knowledge of building services
  • Be able to communicate with other members of staff and patients clearly and your personal appearance must be of a high standard, expected in a professional healthcare environment.
  • Customer oriented; friendly and able to exude an approachable attitude towards patients and colleagues.
  • Need to be able to contribute to a team environment

Who we're looking for?

  • Practical person with an ability to solve problems
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Ability to work in a fast-paced role
  • Fast learner with an eye for detail

Benefits:

We offer employed colleagues a competitive salary as well as a comprehensive benefits package which includes but is not limited to:

  • Bank colleagues are paid weekly
  • Access to Spire Healthcare pension
  • Access to Blue Light Card discounts
  • Free uniform
  • Free DBS
  • Full induction, including mandatory training updates
  • Opportunities for further training and progression into permanent posts
  • Knowledge, support and guidance through your recruitment journey from Spire’s specialist Resourcing Team
  • Employer and employee contributory pension with flexible retirement options
  • ‘Spire for you’ reward platform - discount and cashback for over 1000 retailers

Our Values

We are extremely proud of our heritage in private healthcare and of our values as an organisation:

  • Driving clinical excellence
  • Doing the right thing
  • Caring is our passion
  • Keeping it simple
  • Delivering on our promises
  • Succeeding and celebrating together

Our people are our difference; it's their dedication, warmth and pursuit of excellence that sets Spire Healthcare apart.

We commit to our employee’s well-being through work life balance, on-going development, support and reward.

Spire Healthcare is a leading independent hospital group in the United Kingdom and the largest in terms of revenue. From 38 hospitals and over 50 clinics across England, Wales and Scotland, Spire Healthcare provides diagnostics, inpatient, day case and outpatient care.

For us, it's more than just treating patients; it's about looking after people.

Closing date: In order to streamline our recruitment process, we reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications.

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This advert is for Bank Engineer with Spire Healthcare Ltd in Manchester, GB. It is listed as a Engineer role. The advertised salary is Competitive hourly rate plus excellent benefits. The contract type is Bank. The application deadline is 25 Sep 2026.

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