Graduate Programme
As one of the largest property companies in the UK, NHS Property Services offers a specialist graduate programme to help the NHS get the most from its estate and provide a solid foundation for your career. The scheme is planned and delivered in partnership with professional body the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS).
An update on our graduate scheme
"This year we will not be recruiting onto the RICS Graduate Programme. We are extremely proud of our graduate programme and the success our graduates achieve due to the bespoke and structured support we can offer. The health and wellbeing of our candidates is our key priority and this year we are focusing on our existing cohorts and their APC journey.
We feel now is the right time to reflect on the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and re-align our programme to better reflect changes in the market and ways of working, so that we can continue offering a high quality programme and develop talent that can best support the NHS.
We aim to relaunch the programme and resume recruitment in late 2022, so watch this space!"
- Hanna Hardy, Senior Transactions Manager and Graduate Programme Lead
Our graduate programme
Assessment of Professional Competence (APC)
We focus on developing the Mandatory, Core and Technical skills you need by giving you organisational objectives to meet the business needs to support your APC Diary. You will also experience daily contact with customers, wider understanding of the NHS Estate and a great breadth of commercial experience gradually building your responsibilities.
Working with our different business functions including; Property Management, Purchase and Sale, Strategic Real Estate, Corporate Real Estate, Landlord and Tenant, Leasing and Letting, Planning Development, Evaluation and Analytics you will develop and enhance your technical and professional capability.
We have an excellent track record in supporting graduate surveyors through the APC programme to qualification.
Who we are looking for
We are looking for self-motivated, enthusiastic individuals with excellent communication and time management skills. The successful candidates will be team players who are able to prioritise workload and meet deadlines.
Candidates will have experience and an interest in the commercial property sector, an understanding of the public sector and a desire to help enable excellent patient care through estate management. A RICS Accredited Degree is essential.
Programme overview
The recruitment process
For all successful candidates following the online application, we will organise a first stage interview which will be either via telephone or video, this is an opportunity for you to showcase your technical and behavioural skills.
The next stage will be completing a psychometric profile, this is not a test this will help provide you with development feedback which will feed into the assessment centre stage.
The final stage of the recruitment process is the assessment centre day. This format of the day is:
- Meet the team
- Individual presentations
- Group exercise
- Final one-to-one discussions linking to psychometric profile
This is a fun, interactive day to help get the best out of you and for you to meet the team who you will be working with if successful. We want this to be a positive experience regardless of the outcome.
Full feedback will be provided for all successful and unsuccessful candidates.
Get in touch
If you have any questions about working at NHS Property Services or our roles, please do not hesitate to contact a member of our team.
