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Job summary
The Deputy Chief Operating Officer will have specific responsibilities and accountabilities across Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (LTHT) ensuring supportive and responsive operational management leadership of our hospitals to ensure a high quality of service to patients, visitors, and colleagues. As a key member of the senior leadership team, the Deputy Chief Operating Officer will work collaboratively with all professions and the CSU Management Teams across LTHT, to identify and implement opportunities for improved productivity, efficiency, and clinical quality ensuring that we deliver efficient services and effective patient care. The postholder will play a key role in ensuring the Trust delivers on the full range of performance targets, business planning, business continuity, service development and delivery and will help lead the development of a high performing compassionate and inclusive culture across LTHT.
Main duties of the job
The Deputy Chief Operating Officer will have specific responsibilities and accountabilities across Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (LTHT) ensuring supportive and responsive operational management leadership of our hospitals to ensure a high quality of service to patients, visitors, and colleagues. As a key member of the senior leadership team, the Deputy Chief Operating Officer will work collaboratively with all professions and the CSU Management Teams across LTHT, to identify and implement opportunities for improved productivity, efficiency, and clinical quality ensuring that we deliver efficient services and effective patient care. The postholder will play a key role in ensuring the Trust delivers on the full range of performance targets, business planning, business continuity, service development and delivery and will help lead the development of a high performing compassionate and inclusive culture across LTHT.
About us
The Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is committed to delivering the highest quality and safest treatment and care to every patient, every time. Our vision is to provide the highest quality specialist and integrated care. We will do this through delivery of our multi-year goals and strategic priorities, which you can read about on this page. Central to it all is The Leeds Way our values and behaviours that are at the heart of everything we do.
Details
- Date posted: 26 May 2026
- Pay scheme: Very senior manager (VSM)
- Salary: Depending on experience
- Contract: Permanent
- Working pattern: Full-time
- Reference number: 001049
- Job locations: St James’s University Hospital, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS9 7TF, United Kingdom
Job responsibilities
For questions about this job, contact:
Name Tim Hiles Position Chief Operating Officer Email tim.hiles@nhs.net Phone number
Leeds Teaching Hospitals is one of the largest and most complex NHS Trusts in the country, recognised for our commitment to outstanding patient care, worldclass research, and the values of The Leeds Way.
We are seeking an exceptional senior leader to join us as Deputy Chief Operating Officer (DCOO), supporting the strategic and operational delivery of highquality, safe and efficient services across our hospitals.
The DCOO will play a pivotal role delivering operational excellence across the Trust. Working closely with the Chief Operating Officer, you will provide visible leadership, drive performance improvement, and ensure the effective delivery of clinical services.
You will lead on key operational priorities including elective recovery, urgent and emergency care performance, patient flow, capacity planning, and delivery of national and local performance standards. You will also contribute to the Trust’s major transformation programmes, including the Leeds Hospitals of the Future development.
INTERVIEWS WILL BE HELD: Monday 20th July 2026
Job Summary
The Deputy Chief Operating Officer will have specific responsibilities and accountabilities across Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (LTHT) ensuring supportive and responsive operational management leadership of our hospitals to ensure a high quality of service to patients, visitors, and colleagues.
As a key member of the senior leadership team, the Deputy Chief Operating Officer will work collaboratively with all professions and the CSU Management Teams across LTHT, to identify and implement opportunities for improved productivity, efficiency, and clinical quality ensuring that we deliver efficient services and effective patient care.
The postholder will play a key role in ensuring the Trust delivers on the full range of performance targets, business planning, business continuity, service development and delivery and will help lead the development of a high performing compassionate and inclusive culture across LTHT.
What you will bring to the role
Education to master’s degree level or equivalent experience
Evidence of personal and professional development.
Significant senior leadership experience at Director level in a large and complex organisation.
Experience of successfully leading operational functions within a large healthcare setting at a senior level, delivering across Quality and Safety metrics, improving productivity levels, delivering core standards within financial constraints
Demonstrable experience of sound financial management and delivery in a senior management position
Please see the attached job description for further information about this vacancy.
About Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust
Our values are part of what make us different from other trusts, so we see this as a strength, as well as a responsibility. They have been developed by our staff and set out what they see as important to how we work. Our five values are:
Patient-centred Collaborative Fair Accountable Empowered
All our actions and endeavours will be guided and evaluated through these values
We’re committed to recruiting exceptional people to deliver outstanding services across Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust and helping every colleague reach their full potential. We’re looking for a compassionate, inclusive, and collaborative leader who shares our values and can build strong partnerships. We warmly invite applications from people from a variety of backgrounds and sectors, and are especially keen to hear from individuals from a minority ethnic background. We’re dedicated to creating a diverse and inclusive environment where everyone feels valued, supported, and has a true sense of belonging, as we work together to deliver the best in healthcare to the people of Leeds and beyond.
To comply with UK Government regulations on Skilled Worker sponsorship, Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust is unable to provide sponsorship to applicants who do not meet the eligibility criteria or the salary threshold concessions set out under the Skilled Worker visa route. Please take this into consideration before submitting your application. Full guidance on these concessions, including details of who may qualify, can be found here.
We reserve the right to close this advert early if we receive a high number of suitable applications.
Applying for this NHS job
This advert is for Deputy Chief Operating Officer with Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust in Leeds, North East and Yorkshire, England. It is listed as a Administrative and IT role. The advertised salary is Depends on experience. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 08 Jun 2026.
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