Digital Portfolio Director

The Digital Portfolio Director provides executive-level leadership, authority and accountability for the planning, prioritisation, governance and delivery of the Collaborative's digital transformation portfolio.

The postholder is accountable for ensuring that all major digital transformation programmes are delivered safely, effectively and sustainably, including but not limited to Electronic Patient Records (EPR), PACS, LIMS, Microsoft platforms, data platforms and innovation initiatives. The role ensures that programmes are delivered to agreed-upon scope, time, cost, and quality standards, while actively managing risk and dependencies across a complex, multi-organisational portfolio.

Operating with very high autonomy and corporate authority, the role has system-wide impact on patient safety, clinical effectiveness, workforce productivity, financial sustainability, regulatory compliance and organisational reputation. Decisions taken by the postholder directly influence how care is delivered, how staff work, and how public funds are invested, carrying material clinical, financial and reputational risk.

The Digital Portfolio Director is a visible executive leader, shaping strategy, policy and delivery at Trust, Collaborative, ICS, regional and national level, and is expected to operate credibly in highly complex, politically sensitive and contested environments.

All staff are expected to act as role models in their work, consistently demonstrating the Collaborative's values and supporting and encouraging an inclusive culture.

The newly formed Norfolk & Waveney University Hospitals Group (NWUHG) is placing people and culture at the heart of its transformation.

By working as one system, the Group is strengthening workforce development, improving staff experience and creating consistent, supportive leadership across all three hospitals. This unified approach enables better training, enhanced well-being support, and a stronger culture rooted in compassion, flexibility and continuous learning.

Focusing on people also supports national priorities - ensuring the workforce is skilled, adaptable and ready for the future models of care - and strengthens NWUHG's overall performance by improving qualify, resilience and sustainability.

Together, this creates a Groupwide commitment to making NWUHG a great place to work, with clear benefits for staff including:

Fast Track Staff Physiotherapy Service

Multi Faith prayer room at NNUH Colney Lane site

Discounted Gym memberships

Generous pension scheme and annual leave entitlement

Wagestream - access up to 40% of your pay as you earn it

Free Park & Ride service direct to NNUH Colney Lane site

Free 24 hour confidential counselling support

On-site Nursery at NNUH Colney Lane

On-site cafes offering staff discounts at NNUH Colney Lane

Flexible staff bank

Salary sacrifice schemes including lease cars, Cycle to Work scheme and home electronics

The postholder provides authoritative strategic leadership for digital transformation across the Collaborative, ensuring alignment with clinical priorities, workforce sustainability, system strategy and national NHS digital policy.

The role requires the ability to communicate and negotiate highly complex, sensitive and contentious information at Executive, Board, system and national level, including situations where there are significant barriers to acceptance, competing priorities or major implications for patient safety, service continuity and organisational reputation.

The postholder must influence senior clinical, operational and corporate leaders, often without direct authority, meeting the highest communication and influencing demands of the role.

The Digital Portfolio Director holds end-to-end accountability for the digital transformation portfolio, including portfolio strategy, prioritisation, sequencing, programme initiation, assurance and benefits realisation.

The role ensures that digital investment is managed as a coherent and interdependent portfolio, with a clear line of sight between strategic objectives, delivery capacity, affordability and organisational readiness. Dependencies,…