Benefits of joining
Joining Dobson-Grey offers a robust package of benefits designed to support your professional and personal life. You’ll enjoy 25 days of annual leave plus bank holidays, alongside flexible working hours and remote working options, promoting a healthy work-life balance. Full Christmas period shutdown to allow proper recharge.
We invest in your growth with comprehensive training and development programs, and encourage community involvement with a dedicated day for charitable work. Our culture emphasises recognition, featuring employee recognition schemes, team away days and thoughtful gifts.
We embrace flexible work arrangements with hybrid schedules and prioritise accessible locations, offering parking and easier commutes. We are also committed to your long-term well-being, offering enhanced pension plans, tuition reimbursement, comprehensive healthcare insurance packages, and wellness schemes. Additionally, you’ll have access to discounted services and products and cycling/bike access schemes.
At Dobson-Grey, we strive to create a supportive and rewarding environment where your contributions are valued and your well-being is prioritised.
Our core values
Integrity
Honest, ethical, and accountable in all dealings.
Excellence
Upholding the highest standards of quality and professionalism.
Collaboration
Leveraging diverse, expertise to deliver, optimal solutions.
Innovation
Continuously improving our services and client support.
Trustworthiness
Being helpful, knowledgeable, and proactive to become our clients’ trusted consultant.
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Chartered Town Planner Apprenticeship
Location: Stratford upon Avon
Full Time Hours: 9am – 5 pm (Monday to Thursday) and Fridays 9am – 4pm
Start Date: 15th September 2025
Transform your future with our Chartered Town Planner Level 7 Degree Apprenticeship, combining university study and on-the-job training to advance your career in professional planning and achieve an MSc Urban and Regional Planning qualification.
Responsibilities will include but are not limited to:
- Your key agenda will be to aid delivery of fees from the processing of planning applications and planning related work for immediate and strategic land on behalf of Dobson-Grey and their clients.
- Your particular focus will be on increasing the supply and delivery of planning instructions across sectors but principally Residential and Healthcare Land, providing strategic and immediate planning advice, support to developers and investors.
- Compiling and delivering planning strategies to clients.
- Negotiations and working closely with Local Authorities and key stakeholders.
- Provide Planning update reports highlighting latest planning legislation and statutory change information for development team and clients.
- Experience in preparing/supporting development viability assessments.
- In depth planning knowledge for promotion of strategic land opportunities.
- Active diary management system for key deadlines for Local Government consultations to ensure clients are actively promoting land and made aware.
- Providing advice and submitting pre application forms to Local Government UK wide.
- Experience in Permitted Development Rights application and Agricultural Tie Removal.
- Preparation of planning applications and supporting documents for development and infrastructure schemes.
- Input into the preparation of Development Consent Orders and associated documentation.
- Coordination of Planning Statements, Design and Access Statements and/or input into Environmental Impact Assessments (EIAs).
- Experience of handling and negotiating Section 106 and CIL and good demonstrable planning law experience.
- Undertaking evidence based studies (such as residential and care need employment land reviews, green belt studies, infrastructure assessments).
- Preparation of strategy and policy documents and preparation of area based plans (such as master plans, supplementary planning documents)
- Support development management team with such other development management and research tasks which ensure the effective delivery of projects.
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General Practice Surveyor
Hours: Full time / Part time / flexible hours
Location: Stratford-upon Avon / Birmingham
Experience: 5+ years PQEWe are seeking a talented RICS Registered Valuer to join our growing team in residential, education, and healthcare valuations. If you are ambitious, excel at lateral thinking, and are a whiz with numbers, we want to hear from you.