Bank Engineer / Electrician

Bank Engineer / Electrician | Spire Leicester | Oadby | 0 Hours | Ad-Hoc Shifts

Spire Leicester Hospital is seeking an experienced Engineer / Electrician to join our Bank team. This flexible role supports the hospital during peak periods, annual leave, and staff absence, helping to maintain a safe, compliant, and efficient environment for patients, staff, and visitors.

Duties and responsibilities:

• Deliver a comprehensive engineering and maintenance service across the hospital site
• Carry out planned preventative maintenance (PPM), testing, calibration, and fault finding
• Diagnose and repair faults across plant, equipment, and building systems
• Support installation works and ensure all systems operate safely and efficiently

Key Areas of Responsibility:

• Electrical and general building maintenance
• Water systems
• Ventilation systems
• Decontamination equipment
• Medical gas systems
• General engineering duties

The Role

You will be responsible for maintaining and troubleshooting a wide range of plant and equipment, ensuring compliance with HTM guidelines, PPM schedules, and manufacturer instructions at all times.

Who we're looking for:

• Completed a recognised apprenticeship in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering
• City & Guilds (or equivalent) qualification in a relevant discipline
• Proven experience in building services within a similar environment
• Strong working knowledge of plant and building systems
• Ability to prioritise workloads and respond to changing demands
• Up-to-date understanding of compliance and relevant legislation (or willingness to learn)

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
• We offer competitive rates to our bank colleagues who work on a flexible basis, often to cover busy periods, sickness, or annual leave
• Save an average of £50 per month with our free onsite car park
• Access to Spire Healthcare pension
• Access to Blue Light Card discounts
• Smartspending discounts (in addition to Blue Light discounts) via ‘Spire for You’
• Wellbeing Centre access via ‘Spire for You’
• 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

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

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

Spire Healthcare is a leading independent healthcare group in the United Kingdom, running 38 hospitals and over 50 clinics across England, Wales and Scotland. It provides diagnostics, inpatient, day case and outpatient care, operates a network of private GPs and provides workplace health services to over 800 corporate clients. It also delivers a range of private and NHS mental health, musculoskeletal and dermatological services.

Spire Healthcare are proud to be an equal opportunities employer.   We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive culture for all. Our people are our difference, it’s their dedication, warmth and pursuit of excellence that sets Spire Healthcare apart. 

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.

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