Site Digital Portfolio Lead - QEHKL | Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

The Site Digital Portfolio Lead provides senior leadership and acts as the primary relationship manager between Trust management teams and Digital Services within the Collaborative. The role ensures that digital, data and technology services are aligned to organisational priorities, clinical needs and service improvement objectives.

The postholder is responsible for managing a defined digital portfolio within one or more Trusts, translating organisational strategy into deliverable digital plans and ensuring effective coordination, prioritisation and oversight of programmes and services.

The role operates with a high degree of professional autonomy within agreed strategies, governance frameworks and financial limits, but does not hold corporate-wide or system-wide accountability. The postholder influences decision-making through expert advice, assurance and relationship management rather than executive authority.

Lead the planning, coordination and delivery of a defined digital portfolio aligned to Trust and Collaborative digital strategies and national NHS priorities.

Act as the senior interface between Digital Services and Trust stakeholders, including Divisional Directors, senior clinicians and operational leaders, ensuring priorities, risks and dependencies are understood and managed.

Provide senior oversight and assurance of digital programmes and projects within the portfolio, ensuring delivery to agreed scope, time, cost and quality.

Identify, manage and escalate risks, issues and dependencies through established governance routes, exercising professional judgement in complex and sometimes contested environments.

Hold indirect responsibility for patient care by ensuring digital systems and services within the portfolio support safe, effective and high-quality clinical practice.

Ensure digital initiatives are implemented in ways that minimise risk to patient safety, service continuity and clinical workflow, working closely with clinical safety officers and governance leads.

Communicate complex digital, technical and programme information to non-technical audiences, including senior clinicians and managers.

Manage situations where there may be differing priorities or resistance to change, using persuasion, negotiation and professional credibility rather than authority.

Join us at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital and be part of a workforce of over 10,000 staff!

The NNUH is one of the largest NHS trusts in the UK, providing first-class acute care for around one million people, living in Norfolk and surrounding areas. We are a teaching and research hospital, at the forefront of innovation, home to state-of-the-art facilities, such as the Quadram Institute. We are pleased to work closely with the University of East Anglia, providing teaching opportunities for our staff and placement opportunities for their students. We attract some of the best and leading professionals from across the country and are proud that our workforce represents 94 countries from across the world.

We are a friendly, collaborative hospital, working with local services and home to N&N Hospitals Charity.

We can offer you the full range of

NHS benefits/discounts and in addition

• Flexible working hours
• Fast Track Staff Physiotherapy Service
• Multi Faith prayer room at NNUH Colney Lane site
• Discounted gym memberships
• Excellent 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-hours confidential counselling support
• On-site Nursery at NNUH Colney Lane
• On-site cafes offering staff discounts at NNUH Colney Lane
• Support in career development
• Flexible staff bank
• Salary Sacrifice schemes including lease cars, Cycle to Work scheme and home electronics
• Lead the planning, coordination and delivery of a defined digital portfolio aligned to Trust and Collaborative digital strategies and national NHS priorities.
• Act as the senior interface between Digital Services and Trust stakeholders, including Divisional Directors, senior clinicians and operational leaders, ensuring priorities, risks and dependencies are understood and managed.
• Provide senior oversight and assurance of digital programmes and projects within the portfolio, ensuring delivery to agreed scope, time, cost and quality.
• Identify, manage and escalate risks, issues and dependencies through established governance routes, exercising professional judgement in complex and sometimes contested environments.
• Hold indirect responsibility for patient care by ensuring digital systems and services within the portfolio support safe, effective and high-quality clinical practice.
• Ensure digital initiatives are implemented in ways that minimise risk to patient safety, service continuity and clinical workflow, working closely with clinical safety officers and governance leads.
• Communicate complex digital, technical and programme information to non-technical audiences, including senior clinicians and managers.

Manage situations where there may be differing priorities or resistance to change, using persuasion, negotiation and professional credibility rather than authority.

• Hold delegated responsibility for managing agreed portfolio budgets within defined limits, ensuring resources are used efficiently and in line with financial controls.
• Contribute to the development of business cases and investment proposals, providing portfolio-level insight and assurance rather than final approval.

Please refer to the Job Description for the full specification of responsibilities and requirements for this post.

This advert closes on Sunday 26 Jul 2026