Chief Strategy,Digital, and Partnerships Officer

The Chief Strategy, Digital, and Partnerships Officer (CSDPO) is the Board-level Executive Director responsible for positioning Bristol NHS Foundation Trust for long-term success in an evolving health and care landscape. The postholder will lead and coordinate the Trust's strategic response to the NHS 10-Year Plan, including neighbourhood health, prevention, provider collaboration, Integrated Health Organisation (IHO) development, and the wider shift towards more integrated and community-based models of care.

The Chief Strategy, Digital, and Partnerships Officer provides Executive leadership for corporate strategy, strategic planning, partnerships, organisational transformation, digital transformation, continuous improvement, and post-merger integration. The role acts as the Trust's principal Executive lead for partnerships and system working, ensuring that strategic partnerships, collaborative arrangements and system opportunities are translated into tangible benefits for patients, populations and the organisation.

The postholder is responsible for coordinating the Trust's strategic framework, ensuring that major organisational strategies, programmes, partnerships and investments are aligned, sequenced and translated into coherent organisational priorities and multi-year plans. The role acts as the organisational integrator for strategy, providing the coordination, insight and oversight required to ensure that the Trust's strategic ambitions are delivered through the collective leadership of the Executive Team.

The Chief Strategy,Digital, and Partnerships Officer will lead a substantial future-focused portfolio, including the Director of System Partnerships and Planning and the Director of Digital Transformation, and will work closely with the Chief Delivery Officer and other Executive Directors to ensure that Bristol NHS Foundation Trust is well-positioned to deliver its Clinical Strategy, realise the benefits of merger, strengthen its role across the wider system, and prepare for future opportunities and challenges.

Bristol NHS Foundation Trust brings together more than 28,000 staff to deliver over 160 clinical services across thirteen hospital locations, operating from three main sites at Southmead, Bristol city centre and Weston.

With an annual turnover of £2.3 billion, we are now one of the largest NHS trusts in the United Kingdom. Our hospitals are spread across Bristol and Weston, join us and you can enjoy the very best of both worlds; city living within a stone's throw of the countryside or beside the seaside, both with easy access to all that the South West has to offer.