Leeds Teaching Hospitals

Corporate Planning Manager (XN09)

The closing date is 03 December 2025

Job summary

We are seeking to recruit a motivated Corporate Planning Manager to join the Planning and Business Development team working across the Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trusts main and peripheral sites.

Leeds Teaching Hospitals is a complex organisation, and our aim is to deliver the highest quality service for our patients, and we are consistently looking to improve our services in order to do so. In this role, you will play a pivotal part in making this happen for our patients.

This corporate planning manager post will focus on the development of non-clinical estate across the organisation, delivering on the strategic aims of the estates strategy and supporting our staff to deliver the best care for patients.

This role offers excellent opportunities to build upon skills in service transformation and redesign across a range of services whilst taking the planning lead on all major reconfigurations currently underway within the organisation.

As Corporate Planning Manager, you will work at senior management level alongside Clinical Directors and Assistant Directors of Operations and to make a visible contribution to the business success of CSUs across the Trust.

You will need a strong focus on improving patient care through the development and delivery of local business plans and long term complex strategic projects.

Main duties of the job

in this role you will:

Work with senior CSU representatives and corporate functions to develop and deliver long term strategic plans, often impacting across the Trust and often requiring external commissioner involvement.

To embed the Trustwide Strategic Planning Framework within CSUs and to ensure that the planning rules of engagement are followed and updated to meet the developing needs of the organisation.
Promote the need to focus on top Trust priorities and performance improvement, in particular to facilitate each service in undertaking analysis work to ensure fact based service planning.
Work with internal and external colleagues to promote and drive modernisation as an essential pre requisite of the planning of clinical services and to continually question the status quo
Provide the professional lead on business planning in each CSU and to ensure that business cases for development/service change are of the highest standard, in the correct format and seek approvals as relevant to the case requirements.
Take a co-ordinating role within each CSU in order to bring together the work of the corporate functions finance/HR/planning so resulting in joined up thinking
Take the lead and drive business base development, often in excess of £1 million; to sponsor all non-clinical building and engineering schemes and to tightly monitor progress to time and cost on behalf of the CSU, liaising directly with the CSU General Manager on a regular basis.

About us

Leeds Teaching Hospitals is one of the largest employers in Leeds, employing over 20,000 staff and providing care to 1.6 million patients every year. The Estates and Facilities team keep the Trust's sites running and manage one of the largest estate portfolios across the NHS. With over 2,300 staff, we provide a range of Estates & Facilities management services and ensure our buildings and environments are fit for purpose, clean and safe.

Whether we're cleaning wards, maintaining buildings, monitoring environmental impact, providing staff childcare, delivering hot meals to patients, or patrolling our sites, we support the delivery of patient care. Guided by our Leeds Way Values, we are committed to creating the best place to work and being the employer of choice for estates and facilities in the region.

Leeds Teaching Hospitals is committed to our process of redeploying 'at risk' members of our existing workforce to new roles. As such, all our job adverts are subject to this policy and we reserve the right to close, delay or remove adverts while this process is completed. If you do experience a delay in the shortlisting stage of the recruitment cycle, please bear with us while this process is completed, and contact the named contact if you have any questions.

Date posted

13 November 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8b

Salary

£64,455 to £74,896 a year

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

18 months

Working pattern

Full-time, Flexible working

Reference number

C9298-25-0082

Job locations

St. James's University Hospital

Beckett Street

Leeds

LS9 7TF

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see attached Job Description for the post of Corporate Planning Manager within Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see attached Job Description for the post of Corporate Planning Manager within Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

Significant knowledge and experience of the NHS with understanding of current changes and developments and particular understanding of acute health services.
A highly developed knowledge of NHS policy and its application/consequences in the Trusts environment.
Highly developed specialist knowledge across multiple disciplines e.g. clinical services, clinical support services, business functions

Desirable

Experience of working within an acute trust

Qualifications

Essential

Degree or equivalent management qualification

Desirable

Managerial qualification to masters or equivalent level of experience

Skills and Behaviours

Essential

A theoretical and practical knowledge of NHS planning systems and frameworks, underpinned by significant relevant experience, to a degree which enables the postholder to influence organisational polic
Experience/knowledge of project management and managing major service changes
Understanding and knowledge of a range of clinical specialties.
Work autonomously with the ability to plan and organise, to plan own time to maximum effect and to delegate responsibility and authority appropriately
Apply a high degree of knowledge and experience in the interpretation of national and local policy, using it to manage conflict, uncertainty and variation between policy and local circumstances.
Work in partnership across boundaries with staff, patient and user groups.

Desirable

Change Management Theory

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

Significant knowledge and experience of the NHS with understanding of current changes and developments and particular understanding of acute health services.
A highly developed knowledge of NHS policy and its application/consequences in the Trusts environment.
Highly developed specialist knowledge across multiple disciplines e.g. clinical services, clinical support services, business functions

Desirable

Experience of working within an acute trust

Qualifications

Essential

Degree or equivalent management qualification

Desirable

Managerial qualification to masters or equivalent level of experience

Skills and Behaviours

Essential

A theoretical and practical knowledge of NHS planning systems and frameworks, underpinned by significant relevant experience, to a degree which enables the postholder to influence organisational polic
Experience/knowledge of project management and managing major service changes
Understanding and knowledge of a range of clinical specialties.
Work autonomously with the ability to plan and organise, to plan own time to maximum effect and to delegate responsibility and authority appropriately
Apply a high degree of knowledge and experience in the interpretation of national and local policy, using it to manage conflict, uncertainty and variation between policy and local circumstances.
Work in partnership across boundaries with staff, patient and user groups.

Desirable

Change Management Theory

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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Additional information

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

Certificate of Sponsorship

Employer details

Employer name

Leeds Teaching Hospitals

Address

St. James's University Hospital

Beckett Street

Leeds

LS9 7TF

Employer's website

https://www.leedsth.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Leeds Teaching Hospitals

Address

St. James's University Hospital

Beckett Street

Leeds

LS9 7TF

Employer's website

https://www.leedsth.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)