Interim Deputy Medical Director | Spectrum Community Health CIC
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.
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.
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.
To arrange an informal discussion please email the business admin team onBusiness.Admin@spectrum-cic.nhs.uk
This advert closes on Tuesday 1 Dec 2026
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Spectrum Community Health CIC Recruitment Team
