About The Role
Let’s grow together!
A Platinum Investors in People employer and an award-winning UK bank, focused on growth. Our customers include savers and businesses across the UK and, working together, we use our specialist expertise to help them achieve their ambitions and build a sustainable future. If you’re an experienced Chartered Surveyor looking for an opportunity to grow in a friendly environment, we’re looking for you!
This is a market leading opportunity to become a specialist Buy-To-Let Surveyor supporting our Head Office activity working with our respected team that operates within an in-house lender environment.
We’re inclusive, committed to your wellbeing and passionate about you reaching your potential. Let’s grow together …
What you’ll be doing
We are looking to recruit a specialist BTL Surveyor to support the Head of Surveyors, our in-house Surveyors team, panel valuers and the LPA Receiver with all associated head office valuation functions in providing specialist and complex BTL valuation advice within the Bank.
If you are fully qualified (MRICS/FRICS) with post-qualification experience and wish to specialise and join our growing team, this may be the opportunity for you.
Experience in valuing the more complex residential investment properties which include Houses in Multiple Occupation and Multi-Unit blocks is a requirement of the role.
This will be a senior role within our in-house valuation team that would suit a candidate with proven valuation experience that now seeks to develop their career further within a specialist lender environment. Some management experience may be an advantage.
More specifically, this unique position requires the successful applicant to:-
1. Provide expert specialist BTL advice in accordance with our Lending Criteria, RICS Red Book and Paragon's guidance across Head Office activities
2. Support and organise rotated Duty Surveyor activity for internal post-valuation enquiries
3. Be a face and champion of the Group on valuation matters and support the Group’s Buy-To-Let business and other functions eg Development Finance and Due Diligence exercises as required
4. Support Panel valuer relationships providing input and oversight through the Panel validation activity
5. Assist with Receiver of Rent, Repossession, and Power of Sale properties under management
6. Provide Market Reports and other information for Group Strategy and interact with field operations and new starters
About You
What you’ll bring to the team
7. Professional competence/qualification (MRICS/FRICS) and Valuer Registration scheme
8. Existing experience as detailed above
9. Demonstrate a clear understanding of the regulatory framework incorporating RICS requirements, property regulation, LPA Receivership and property management standards
10. Experience and to stay updated on property and regulatory matters affecting landlords, the property market and technical developments with a focus towards the specialist and complex BTL markets
11. Up-to-date CPD and Clean current driving licence
Even if you don’t meet all the criteria, we encourage you to apply. At Paragon, we value diversity, and we’re excited to hear from passionate individuals like you! If you’re ready to contribute to the team, please apply.
Further information on the role can be found in the Purpose and Performance Profile (PPP), which is downloadable on this page.
Working hours / arrangements
12. 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday, 8:30 am to 5:00 pm (one hour for lunch).
13. Located at our Head Office in Solihull for 3 days per week and then either working from home or out in the regions across the UK supporting our team.
14. As such, it is likely that you will be located within up to 100 miles from Solihull.
Inclusion
As a Disability Confident Employer, we want to ensure that our vacancies are accessible for everyone. If you have a disability, long term health condition or are neurodiverse and need us to adjust our recruitment process please get in touch with our recruitment team.
About Us
What can we offer you?
15. Generous Holiday Allowance: Starting from 27 days and climbing to 30, you also get to enjoy a day off for your birthday, Christmas Eve, and New Year’s Eve. You can also buy or sell up to a week’s leave
16. Share Save Scheme: Annually, you have the opportunity to buy shares in Paragon at a discounted rate
17. Profit Related Pay: We share some of our annual profit with our eligible employees
18. Pension Plan: We contribute up to 10% of your annual salary towards your pension
19. Family Friendly policies: We offer enhanced parental pay and paid time off for fertility treatment
20. Employee Discounts: Enjoy exclusive discounts on entertainment, travel, shopping, motoring and more
21. Volunteering Day: Contribute to causes you care about with one volunteering day per year
22. Life Assurance and Personal Accident Cover
Be flexible
We promote flexibility around how and where we work so that you can achieve a healthier work-life balance. We operate hybrid working, splitting our week between the office and home.
Be yourself
As an equal opportunities employer, we welcome diversity and care about inclusion. That’s why we want you to be your whole self at work. We believe an inclusive workplace is good for each of us, great for our customers and better for our business. Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Network meets regularly to share challenges, experience, and ideas to build a more equal, diverse, and inclusive business.
Be heard
We listen to your point of view, with our People Forum and regular employee surveys making sure you can use your voice and influence our future.
Be well
We will give you access to a range of tools and resources to support your wellbeing. This will include a digital GP service via our free Employee Assistance Programme, access to our Wellbeing team to connect you with the help you need to get more out of life and our Vitality at Work programme to provide you with discounted gym membership, fitness equipment and another multitude of wellbeing services.
Be better
We want you to reach your potential and, as a Platinum Investors in People employer, we’ll encourage you to learn and develop by building a personalised development plan together with your manager.