Job Description
NHS Property Services have a fantastic opportunity for a Lease Advisory Manager, based anywhere within England. The working hours are 37.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday) and the role attracts a salary of £31,000-40,000 per annum + car allowance and 27 days holiday. This role is a Fixed Term Contract covering maternity leave for a 12 month period.
With great developmental support available this is an excellent opportunity for a surveyor to gain experience within a lease advisory role for a large, national organisation.
The role of the Lease Advisory Manager is to support senior colleagues in the management of a portfolio of head lease and sub lease event activity.
You will manage individual lease events under the supervision of senior colleagues, protecting business operations in core leasehold sites through the effective management of lease event, ensuring that all lease events are managed in an effective and timely manner.
Lease Advisory Managers play an important role at NHSPS. They are the conduit between senior managers and leaders and the colleagues across the business who deliver for our customers and who keep the business running smoothly. Their teams are made up of specialists and team contributors, and typically they are responsible for the delivery of defined elements of the strategy and operating plans.
Managers frequently share the same professional and technical backgrounds as their teams.
Their remit includes:
- Contributing to the development of local strategies and plan
- Role modelling the values and behaviours and setting the cultural tone of the team
- Engaging and collaborating with other managers across the business
- Embracing and embedding change and other organisational initiatives
- Tackling inefficiencies and driving continuous improvement
- Embracing, adopting, and embedding technology to enable business outcomes
Core elements of the role
- Collaborate with property management and finance colleagues to ensure that lease events are
- properly budgeted for both in balance sheet and I&E terms. Ensuring lease events are managed to budgets.
- Working with senior colleagues to ensure all options are considered when concluding lease
- event negotiations to minimise risk and maximise opportunities including schedules of condition, removal of onerous clauses, service charge caps.
- Manage transactions in line with IAP and SE approvals, ensuring that horizon data is updated in line with SLAs.
- Provides reporting on productivity and other KPIs.
- Provides coaching and performance feedback to team members
- Brings professional best practice to their roles
- Spots opportunities to improve processes and practises
- Shares technical/professional skills and knowledge
- Oversees service delivery to internal and external customers at agreed performance levels
- Manages budgets I line with forecast (where appropriate)
- Adheres to the appropriate governance and compliance standards for professional area
- Manages internal and external customer relationships
What helps people succeed in this role?
- Good understanding of landlord and tenant law and strategic asset management
- Inspecting and measuring premises
- Compiling comparable evidence
- Assessing accurate rental values
- Commercial negotiation experience in rent reviews lease renewals, break deferment/removal.
- Broad understanding of modern people practices
- Degree and/or equivalent relevant experience
- Membership of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors - post qualification experience
We understand how important life is outside of work so, as well as a competitive salary and 27 days annual leave, we’ll support you, wherever possible, so that you don’t miss out on what truly matters to you.
If you do ever need a little bit of extra help we have a great employee assistance programme, financial well-being support and access to great discounts with leading high street names with the bluelight discount card.
Our range of network groups are also there to support you to truly be yourself at work and play a key role in helping shape our future. We ‘hire for attitude and train for skills’ providing opportunities for our people to develop & progress their careers at all levels through our Professional Excellence Framework.
If you are a member of a professional body we’ll pay for your membership and once you get your digital kit you’ll be good to go in one of our great offices (or at home!)
Who are we?
We are part of the NHS family with 6,000 professionals supporting over 3,000 healthcare properties across England. Our purpose is to enable excellent patient care by being the best property and facilities provider to the NHS.
Our services include estate strategy and optimisation, property management, facilities management, property development and construction project management. We help support millions of patients and NHS colleagues in collaboration without 7,000 customers who range from Integrated Care Systems, health providers, charities and more.
Our culture and values seek to place our NHS colleagues and their patients, at the heart of everything we do.
We celebrate diversity, and we are working hard to create an inclusive environment where people love to work and can fulfil their potential.
We would encourage all applicants to apply as soon as possible as we may close vacancies early should we receive a high number of applications.
Best of luck with your application!