Director of Planning & Performance

Job summary

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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: Agenda for change
• Band: Band 9
• Salary: £112,782 to £129,783 a year
• Contract: Permanent
• Working pattern: Full-time
• Reference number: 001024
• 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

The Director of Planning & Performance will play a pivotal leadership role to deliver high-quality, timely and accessible services across Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. The post-holder will provide strategic and operational leadership for the Trust’s operational performance framework, ensuring the organisation consistently delivers against national and local performance standards while maintaining a strong focus on patient experience, quality of care and operational efficiency. The role will coordinate Trust-wide operational performance, working closely with clinical leaders and corporate services to ensure services have the operational capability, performance management processes and analytical insight required to deliver sustainable improvements in patient access and flow.

The role will also lead major operational Trust-wide and system-wide improvement and transformation programmes to improve patient access, pathway management and productivity, working with clinical, operational and system partners to redesign pathways, optimise capacity and support delivery. The postholder will hold corporate responsibility for supporting delivery of NHS Constitutional Standards and national operational performance targets. This includes oversight of the Trust’s performance against national cancer waiting time standards, elective care recovery trajectories, Referral to Treatment (RTT) standards and diagnostic waiting time standards, including compliance with the DM01 diagnostic activity standard.

The post-holder will ensure robust operational management of patient pathways across the organisation, supporting services to reduce waiting times, improve access and deliver sustained performance improvement. The Director of Planning & Performance will lead and coordinate several corporate operational teams. Through these teams the post-holder will ensure that performance information is accurate, timely and effectively used to support operational decision-making and enable CSUs to proactively manage performance risks and deliver improvement plans.

The postholder will ensure the Chief Operating Officer and Trust Board are informed of operational performance, ensuring risks to national standards are clearly understood and that robust recovery plans and governance arrangements are in place.

We are seeking a strategic, analytical, and collaborative leader who embodies The Leeds Way and brings:

• Significant senior leadership experience in planning, performance, or strategy within a large, complex healthcare organisation
• A strong track record of delivering highquality planning and performance frameworks
• Exceptional analytical and problemsolving skills
• The ability to influence at Board level and work effectively across organisational boundaries
• Experience leading large teams and complex programmes of work
• A commitment to patientcentred care, quality, and continuous improvement
• What we offer
• The opportunity to shape the future of one of the UK’s largest teaching hospitals
• A supportive, ambitious Executive Team
• A culture rooted in compassion, collaboration, and improvement
• Access to highquality leadership development
• A diverse, inclusive, and vibrant workplace

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.