Job requirements
Essential
12 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Experience
Significant experience in managing large value property transactions including acquisition and disposal, asset management, landlord and tenant.
- Experience
Detailed knowledge of Property management, RICS best practice.
- Experience
Commercial awareness and experience in dealing with landlord, tenants, solicitors, building surveyors, quantity surveyors, compliance H&S officers.
- Other requirements
Ability to drive/travel across sites. Postholder is required to undertake site inspections and carry out site visits.
- Skills and knowledge
Ability to communicate highly complex / sensitive and commercially confidential information verbally and in writing relating to estates projects, and multi-stranded business cases to Board senior managers, project teams and client departments as appropriate
- Skills and knowledge
Well-developed interpersonal skills, able to negotiate and persuade people with a balanced consultative approach to implementing change.
- Skills and knowledge
Ability to process, analyse, and interpret complex information and arrive at judgements by providing options and professional recommendations compliant with legislation.
- Skills and knowledge
Ability to identify and manage risks
- Skills and knowledge
Ability to manage conflicting demands including financial and political, multiple cases/ be part of multiple projects of varying complexity over a broad geographical area
- Skills and knowledge
Ability to work on own initiative guided by RICS, NHS England, ICB, legislation, and other regulations and guidance
- Skills and knowledge
Be numerate and computer literate in a range of computer packages such as word and excel, particularly in relation to capital projects and estate management applications of computer technology.
- Qualifications and/or professional registration
Degree level in a property related discipline.
Desirable
5 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Experience
Experience and knowledge of the NHS or public sector. Have broad technical knowledge of the ‘Estates Code’.
- Experience
Experience and knowledge of managing contracts/consultants.
- Skills and knowledge
Knowledge and experience of market testing, tendering process, contract negotiations and performance management.
- Skills and knowledge
Ability to use MICAD system or property database system alike.
- Qualifications and/or professional registration
AssocRICS/MRICS/FRICS with experience in property/asset management.
Job overview
- The post holder is required to manage Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust (The Trust/SCFT) Property Portfolio and other property related matters on behalf of SCFT. They are responsible for a broad range of property duties, including landlord and tenant negotiations such as rent reviews and lease renewals, managing property acquisitions and disposals.
- The postholder will support the management of service charges and formalise all occupational arrangements including the granting of licences and leases to third-party occupiers. To identify and facilitate fit for purpose premises suitable for healthcare teams to provide their services and undertake site inspections for the purposes of space allocations, repair/maintenance, valuations, updating records
Please note: Due to recent changes in UK immigration and visa rules, this role may not be eligible for Skilled Worker visa sponsorship. Applicants who do not currently have the right to work in the UK may not be considered. Candidates requiring sponsorship should review the eligibility criteria on the gov.uk website before applying to assess their eligibility for a Certificate of Sponsorship for this role.
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Main duties of the job
- Provide the strategic and operational property advice across the property portfolio to the Associate Director for Health Planning and Property and services as necessary. To undertake and assist colleagues with other planned strategic initiatives as instructed by the Associate Director of Health Planning and Property. To negotiate new leases, lease renewals, reinstatement of premises, dilapidations, licences, rent reviews, wayleaves, easements. Tenancy at wills, and other contracts such as Memorandum agreements in accordance with best practice, legislation and Trust Policy. To undertake site searches and manage acquisition and disposal cases. Responsible for lease events and ensure other related transactions are executed and completed on time and to meet the needs of the Trust’s service provisions To achieve the best outcome for the Trust and protect the Trust’s interests through effective communication, negotiation, completion of due diligence and more. To undertake comparable valuations and where necessary to manage registered valuers/agents.
- To identify income revenue opportunities and ensure that revenue income is optimised. To assist in the production and to manage Service Charges both as Landlord and Tenant capacity.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification for more details regarding the role.
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This advert is for Space and Asset Officer with Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust in Brighton, England. It is listed as a Band 5 Officer (discipline unspecified) role. The advertised salary is £32073.00 to £39043.00. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 26 Oct 2026.
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