Interim Deputy Medical Director

Spectrum Community Health CIC; Wakefield; Hybrid; GBP 135,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Spectrum Community Health CIC is seeking an Interim Deputy Medical Director in Wakefield. The role focuses on clinical leadership across the medical directorate for six months, with emphasis on addressing immediate priorities and establishing foundations for future workforce development.

You will work closely with the Executive Medical Director, review medical capacity, and provide tactical leadership to coordinate actions across sites, ensuring clear escalation of priorities and decisions.

Qualifications

• MRCGP or equivalent GP qualification
• Postgraduate qualification in medical leadership/quality improvement
• Significant senior medical leadership experience in complex healthcare settings

Responsibilities

• Conduct baseline site reviews and GP job plan analysis to map medical capacity and service requirements.
• Provide professional leadership to regional and site GP leads; coordinate actions and ensure accountability.
• Lead the review of medical portfolio risks and escalate decisions as needed; align with Clinical Strategy implementation.

Skills

Senior medical leadership

GP collaboration

Strategic leadership

Clinical governance

Quality improvement

Executive deputising

Regulatory compliance

Education

MRCGP or equivalent

Postgraduate qualification in medical leadership

Job description

Main area Medical Director Grade Executives / VSM: Executives / VSM Contract 6 months (Interim 6 month fixed term role) Hours

• Full time
• Part time
• Job share

37.5 hours per week (Hybrid Working) Job ref 847-RM-26-V1015

Employer Spectrum Community Health CIC Employer type Public (Non NHS) Site Navigation Walk Town Wakefield Salary £135,000 - £140,000 Spectrum VSM Salary period Yearly Closing 01/12/2026 23:59 Interview date 09/12/2026

Interim Deputy Medical Director

Executives / VSM: Executives / VSM

Job overview

Thank you for your interest in becoming our interim Deputy Medical Director at Spectrum Community Health CIC.

Spectrum is an ambitious, market-leading organisation and one of the largest providers of prison healthcare services in the North of England, providing quality healthcare interventions for people in vulnerable circumstances. We believe in recovery and rehabilitation, and we know what an incredible impact the right care and support can have from an empowered, well-trained and supported workforce. Everyone at Spectrum is dedicated to delivering the best possible service for those in our care.

In this newly created role, you will work closely with the Executive Medical Director and his team across the medical directorate portfolio. The interim role will provide focused on Clinical and medical leadership over six months, addressing immediate priorities across the medical portfolio while establishing stronger foundations for the future. Working closely with the Medical Director, the postholder will lead a review of medical portfolio risks, provide tactical leadership to coordinate action, and ensure that priorities requiring further oversight or decisions are clearly escalated. We are at a pivotal time for clinical leadership with a new Clinical Strategy that is now in implementation phase and you will have an opportunity to lead on aspects of this too.

Interviews will be held on site in Navigation Walk, Wakefield on the 9th December 2026.

Main duties of the job

A central responsibility will be to complete a baseline review of every site and a review of GP job plans, establishing a clear understanding of medical capacity, service requirements and areas for improvement strengthening the foundations for longer-term medical workforce development. The postholder will provide professional leadership and support to regional and site GP leads, strengthening consistency, coordination and shared ownership of agreed actions.

As a key member of our Senior Leadership Team (SLT) you will play an important leadership and coordination role across Spectrum. Our SLT brings together senior regional and corporate leaders to have an overview of what is happening across the whole business, strengthen collective ownership and ensure that issues, learning and expertise drive coordinated decisions and action.
SLT makes sure that quality, people, performance, finance, risk and improvement are considered together and for coordinating recovery and improvement activity, resolving issues that cannot be addressed at a lower level and ensuring there is clear assurance for the Executive Team and Board.

Working for our organisation

BE THE DIFFERENCE IN HEALTHCARE

Spectrum Community Health CIC provides a range of award-winning healthcare services on behalf of the NHS, Local Authority Public Health services, and other partners across substance misuse, sexual health, and health and justice settings. As a not-for-profit social enterprise and Community Interest Company our focus is centred on people – our patients, service users, staff and partners.

We are building on our ambition to deliver the best in health and wellbeing on a values-driven ethos and to maintain the highest standards of patient care and service. We are an expanding organisation, but we aim to grow without compromising on quality and social value.

Our Mission

Holistic interventions delivered with compassion for the stigmatised and marginalised in our communities

Our Vision

Quality healthcare that makes a difference to people’s lives, regardless of circumstances.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• MRCGP (Membership of the Royal College of General Practitioners) or equivalent specialist / primary care qualification relevant to the portfolio
• Postgraduate qualification in medical leadership, management, quality improvement, patient safety, public health or related field

Experience and Knowledge

• Significant experience in a senior medical or clinical leadership role in complex healthcare organisation
• Successful leadership of senior clinicians and multi-disciplinary teams including GPs and ACPs
• Able to demonstrate successful track record of deputising for Executive level roles
• Proven track record of strategic and tactical leadership in complex, multi-disciplinary environments
• Ability to provide credible, supportive leadership to regional and site GP leads, strengthening consistency, collaboration and accountability.
• Experience in clinical governance, quality improvement, and regulatory compliance
• Experience in social enterprise or community-based health models
• Experience working across complex healthcare systems such as Health and Justice, Primary Care, and Substance Misuse

Knowledge

• Practical knowledge and proven experience of how to assess clinical capacity, review GP job plans and align medical resources with service requirements across multiple sites.
• Understanding of medical recruitment challenges and approaches to developing sustainable GP teams and effective clinical leadership roles, leading recruitment activity and developing workable supervision and induction arrangements.
• Ability to analyse complex quality, workforce, activity and financial information and convert it into clear priorities and decisions
• Expertise through experience of translating strategic priorities into practical actions, and delivering agreed outcomes over a time-limited period.
• Ability to produce concise Executive reports, communicate complex issues clearly and escalated risks and decisions appropriately
• Ability through knowledge and skills to contribute effectively to a wider Senior Leadership Team
• Knowledge of multi-site prison healthcare delivery
• Experience of applying workforce and service data to medical service redesign.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.