Shawbrook Bank is looking to grow its commercial lending team.

It wants to recruit lending officers, lending managers and a sales executive, to build a specialist short term loan team in the coming months, while adding additional new staff members to its lending and specialist lending teams.

The lender has already doubled its field sales team this year with four new recruits.

Karen Bennett, head of sales and marketing, commercial mortgages, Shawbrook Bank, said: “This raft of new appointments is a significant investment to ensure that we continue to deliver for our network of brokers, who sit at the heart of our business.

“2013 has already been an exciting year for the commercial lending team with an increase in STL commission rates, a reduction on STL rates and a reduction of our arrangement fees across all term products.

“We work with our brokers closely and would welcome any support and feedback on identifying potential candidates for the team, as we continue to ensure Shawbrook is the lender to follow.”