Head of Product Ownership

Job summary

Are you ready to apply your product expertise and leadership skills in a role that truly makes a difference to peoples lives? If so, this is an excellent opportunity to join the IT Service Operations team at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.

Main duties of the job

Reporting to Steve Thomas, you will provide strategic leadership and direction to a growing Product Ownership function, ensuring the delivery of high-quality products that support and advance the Trusts vision for integrated digital services. As a senior leader, you will be part of a high-performing, collaborative, and operations-focused team, driving innovation and continuous improvement. In return, we offer a varied and engaging role within a supportive and dynamic team, where you will have the opportunity to make a difference.

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.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Shortlisting Date: 28/08/2026

Interview Date: 17/09/2026

Why you should join our Team

DIT at LTHT is a highly motivated and inclusive place to work. We hold our Leeds Way Values in high esteem and respect all colleagues. Within the trust we are always looking to improve and give the best service possible, and we are looking for individuals with the same drive to join us.

DIT look after the Trusts information technology, responsible for delivering and embedding the latest digital innovations, finding the right hardware and software to meet business needs, turning information into insight and everything in between. Its an exciting time to join us, as we offer varied and rewarding opportunities.

Wed love to consider your application if you want to be a part of delivering operational services that allow patients to be treated effectively across Leeds.

Please note that if you are applying for a fixed term position, should funding be available to support there may be a possibility of the position becoming permanent.

If you choose to use Al tools to complete your application, please take the time to edit and personalise your application and ensure that the language used reflects your behaviours, ideas and values. We want to understand what you can bring to LTHT and your reasons for applying, not a version of these created by AI. AI is a tool, it is not a replacement for your thoughts, experience and ideas.

What you will bring to the role

Extensive experience of working on improvement or change led projects in the health sector
Experience of managing IT products and systems
Experience of working at strategic level, able to recognise direction and implications of policy and the potentially competing priorities/interests
Experience of working within an acute Trust
Knowledge of health service management
Has substantial experience of managing an IM&T Team
Experience of projects that span multiple organisations Has contributed to the development of IM&T strategy and its tactical implementation
Excellent leadership and motivational skills to encourage collaborative working to improve services/performance where there may be resistance to change and where priorities differ. This will involve a high level of negotiation and diplomacy
Experience of delivering organisational business change management
Ability to review, analyse, interpret, and compare a range of options/highly complex requirements

Please see the attached job description for further information about this vacancy.

About Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust

Our Trust values

The Leeds Way is working together to support each other and deliver the best possible care to patients.

We are.

Responsible Open and Honest One Team Kind

Our Trust priorities

Our purpose: Excellent, safe and sustainable care for every patient every time

Our priorities:

People Improvement and Innovation Partnerships Outcomes

Sponsorship Eligibility

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.

Person Specification

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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.

Employer details

Employer name

Leeds Teaching Hospitals

Address

St James’s University Hospital

Leeds

West Yorkshire

LS9 7TF

United Kingdom

Employer's website

https://www.leedsth.nhs.uk/

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