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.
