Chartered Surveyor - Health Sector Lead - York, Humber & NE - Durham

About the job

Discover a career in your hands at HMRC. This role is part of HMRC Valuation Office, formerly known as the Valuation Office Agency. HMRC Valuation Office (VO) are the public sector's property valuation experts and advisers with a vision to be a world-leading provider of public sector valuations. Our work is vital to the collection of over 60 billion of revenue which goes back into communities, touching every citizen and every business across England and Wales.

Role Overview

We're recruiting a Sector Leader for Health within District Valuer Service (DVS), which is a key division of the Valuation Office. DVS are dedicated to delivering a wide range of statutory and non-statutory functions and we're looking for talented individuals to join our team and contribute to our mission of providing expert property valuation services.

Our Core Functions within DVS are:

• Valuation and Taxation: Providing insightful advice on valuations and apportionments to support national taxation initiatives.
• Support for Public Bodies: Offering comprehensive property advice and valuations to Other Public Bodies (OPBs), enabling them to effectively carry out their regulatory and legislative duties.
• Government Policy Implementation: Assisting in the delivery of government policies and estate strategies, particularly in contexts where public functions and funding are involved.

This is a technical surveying and leadership role primarily involving project management of valuation work for national clients in the health sector. It's an excellent opportunity to lead high profile work and collaborate with specialist teams. As a Sector Leader for Health, you will be responsible for managing a large and diverse client base, whilst providing technical advice and support to the team.

Key responsibilities:

• Maintaining and applying an advanced level of valuation surveying knowledge to casework activity and conducting reviews of high profile or complex valuations for peers and team members.
• Undertaking casework which will typically fall within the following key areas:
• Providing value for money advice to the NHS in connection with existing leasehold premises and with proposed new primary care schemes.
• Leading on disputed cases under the Doctors' Rent and Rates Reimbursement Scheme, sometimes involving preparation and submission of expert witness reports.
• Providing a range of estates advice to NHS clients, including valuations for acquisitions, disposals, landlord and tenant etc.
• Providing IFRS compliant asset valuations to NHS Bodies for financial accounting purposes.
• Providing technical leadership, guidance, and support to caseworkers within DVS and across the sector to build capability and the delivery of timeliness targets, primarily on a regional and, as required, national basis.
• Ensuring an awareness of the wider political, economic, social, technical, environmental, and legislative agendas that impact DVS and Health Sector clients.
• Developing and maintaining strong relationships with DVS clients and ensuring customer satisfaction, understanding and challenging the needs of the client.
• Reporting to stakeholders up to and including Ministerial level where necessary.
• Pro-actively marketing our professional services to existing and potential clients, developing and maintaining client relationships.
• Identifying and developing new products and services required by clients.
• Maintaining a good understanding of the links to other work areas and the external business environment.

Person specification:

Our ideal candidate is someone with advanced technical surveying knowledge who can project manage asset exercises. The successful candidate will have strong leadership skills with an ability to engage with and influence stakeholders at all levels.

Essential Requirements:

• MRICS / FRICS in either Valuation or Real Estate pathway.
• The candidate must be eligible to join the RICS Valuer Registration Scheme (VRS).
• An advanced level of technical knowledge, including the application of relevant legislation, case law, and codes of practice and professional RICS standards.
• A strong understanding of the Health Sector and its key product areas, together with a good understanding of client requirements reflecting the current market circumstances.
• Strong leadership and communication skills - the ability to build trusted and credible relationships with clients, peers, and direct reports.
• Ability to support and coach team members to enhance their technical skills and performance and to provide excellent client care.
• The ability to identify risks and issues and propose solutions ahead of risks becoming issues.
• A full UK Driving Licence is essential to this role.

We're committed to being flexible and supporting you to balance work and life while meeting these needs.

Benefits:

• Alongside your salary of 59,342, HM Revenue and Customs contributes 17,191 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme.
• HMRC operates both Flexible and Hybrid Working policies, allowing you to balance your work and personal commitments.
• We offer a generous leave allowance that starts at 25 days, increasing by a day for every year of qualifying service up to a maximum of 30 days.
• Pension - We make contributions to our colleagues' Alpha pension equal to at least 28.97% of their salary.
• Family friendly policies.
• Personal support.
• Coaching and development.

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