Graduate Training Scheme
Build a career that means something, in a region that matters.
Our graduate training scheme gives you real client contact, real caseloads and a clear route to chartered status from day one. You will not spend your first year photocopying, you will be on site, meeting clients and building your confidence, supported by some of the most experienced professionals in the South East.
Welcome
Ancient estates and working farms sit alongside fast-moving development land across the South East. National Landscapes border commuter villages, farmers are navigating the most significant transition in a generation, and clients ranging from rural landowners to national telecoms operators need advice they can trust from people who know their region, their communities and their industry inside out. That is where you come in.
At Batcheller Monkhouse, you will join a firm that has been doing this work well for decades. We are independent, employee-owned and genuinely rooted in the communities we serve across Kent, Sussex and Surrey, and we are actively building the next generation of our team.
You will work in small, supportive teams that collaborate and mentor, taking on real responsibility early rather than being left to observe from the sidelines. Small enough to care, big enough to operate across many specialisms; you will not be pigeon-holed. This balance means full support to chartered status, a clear progression route from day one, and a working environment that is as inspiring as the landscape you work in.
“If you want to build a meaningful career in a thriving region, this is the place to do it.
At Batcheller Monkhouse, you will not be a number. You will be known, supported, and given real work from day one. We are employee-owned, which means everyone here has a genuine stake in your success as well as their own. I started in this industry for the same reasons you are reading this: for the land, the clients, and the depth of work you simply do not find elsewhere.”
Leo Hickish, Chairman
You will not be left to figure it out alone
From your first week, you’ll have a supervisor overseeing your day-to-day development, a formal counsellor tracking your professional progress, and a mentor outside your immediate team who’s there purely for you. That’s three people in your corner before you’ve even started. We support graduates through RICS, CAAV, RTPI and other relevant professional pathways, and cover all reasonable training costs, so you can focus on getting qualified.
Your graduate training scheme career path
Graduate / Trainee
Building competencies, forming relationships, growing in confidence from day one.
Surveyor / Planner
Achieved upon gaining your professional qualification.
Senior Surveyor
Taking greater ownership of instructions and deepening your specialism, from 2 years post-qualification.
Associate
Recognised expert, mentoring junior colleagues with an increasingly autonomous caseload, from 5 years post-qualification.
Associate Director
Shaping the direction of your team, from 3 further years’ experience.
Senior Director
Senior company voice with strategic influence, from 5 further years’ experience.
Company Director
Shaping strategy and leading a business you’ve helped build, as part of an employee-owned firm.
What you get when you join us
Beyond the work itself, joining an employee-owned firm means every person here has a genuine stake in the company’s success, including yours. When the business does well, you benefit. When you do well, we all do.
- Competitive graduate salary
- Discretionary bonus scheme
- Employee Ownership profit share
- 23 days holiday, rising to 25 with service
- An extra day off for your birthday
- Christmas parties and summer gatherings, because work should be fun too
- Friendly, professional offices in genuinely beautiful locations
- Real responsibility from early on
- Real client contact, real caseloads, real work
“The more you put in, the more you get out. Now we’re an employee-owned company, I can only see this chance for progression getting stronger.”
Ed Cheevers, Director, MRICS
Ready to start your career here?
We recruit graduates on a rolling basis, with most roles beginning in late summer. Send your CV and a short covering letter telling us what interests you, no trick questions, no assessment centres, just a conversation.