Each self-employed broker will operate as an appointed representative of Openwork, but will receive day-to-day support from the Just Mortgages team.
The Just Mortgages self-employed division will be headed by Carl Parker, who joins Just Mortgages from Countrywide where he was National Financial Services Director.
The new self-employed division will launch on the 6th March. Every broker will receive leads from the group as well as training and compliance support. For people making the move from employed to self-employed they will be shown how to set up their own business, how to create relationships with potential introducers and useful business relationships such as solicitors and estate agents. They will also have guidance in setting up a marketing and business plan. Depending on location, there may also be the opportunity to work from one of the Spicer Haart estate agency branches.
Just Mortgages plans to grow its self-employed division to at least 100 broker firms in the first two years.
John Phillips, group operations director of Spicer Haart and Just Mortgages, said:
“We are launching this new division to provide career progression opportunities to our mortgage brokers and Carl Parker is exactly the right person to lead this for it to develop and grow. It will also provide an exciting and supportive place to work for other mortgage advisers who have their own firms. Often when someone has worked as an employed mortgage broker for some time it is natural that they look for new opportunities and this new division provides them with the opportunity to move on without the need to leave the Spicer Haart group.”
Carl Parker added:
“Just Mortgages self-employed division will help people who want to take the first steps to being self-employed and running their own mortgage and protection businesses. We will help brokers to set up their own businesses, ensure they have robust plans in place and help them to find and develop business. We will also pay some of the best procuration fees in the market to ensure that they are well rewarded for what they do.”
