Clinical Lead

Job Introduction

Lincolnshire County Council, Public Health Division is currently looking to recruit a Clinical Lead to join their existing team.

We are seeking an experienced Clinical Lead to provide tactical and operational leadership for Health Protection and Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) across Lincolnshire. This senior role will lead the Clinical Health Protection function within Public Health, ensuring robust, evidence-based systems are embedded across health, social care and wider partner organisations to protect population health.

The Public Health division play a vital role in protecting our communities from infectious diseases and other public health hazards. We are looking for passionate Clinical Lead to join our team and become part of a progressive Lincolnshire Public Health division.  

Key Responsibilities

• Provide clinical leadership to the Health Protection Service and wider Public Health Division across all core domains of Public Health.
• Lead and assure the development, implementation and delivery of clear, robust health protection and IPC strategies, policies and protocols across multiple organisations.
• Act as the Clinical Lead for IPC within Public Health, providing expert advice and oversight.
• Provide clinical governance and expert advice to Public Health teams and commissioners of health and adult social care, ensuring effective IPC systems and statutory obligations are met.
• Collate and provide assurance that IPC systems and processes meet required standards for commissioners and providers.
• Lead a community-wide IPC programme, providing specialist operational advice and support to health, adult social care and non-healthcare settings to reduce avoidable harm.
• Provide leadership and deliver reactive clinical interventions to manage communicable disease incidents and outbreaks. 
• Positively influence practice, quality and safety across the Health Protection and wider Public Health system.

About You
You will be a senior clinician with substantial expertise in infection prevention and control, health protection and outbreak management, with a strong track record of leadership, collaboration and system-wide influence.

This is a pivotal role for a motivated leader passionate about protecting population health and strengthening resilience to infectious disease threats across Lincolnshire.

The post holder will work both collaboratively and autonomously using transferable knowledge and skills to help develop and deliver the Health Protection function across Lincolnshire. This involves acting as a catalyst for change in practice and service development. The ideal candidate will be resilient and able to appropriately challenge boundaries to identify innovative solutions that best meet the needs of the service, stakeholders and staff.   

The post holder will actively engage in the broader work of the Health Protection Service, provide clinical leadership and guidance across both the Public Health division and wider Council, and will lead or contribute to defined areas of work such as Infection Prevention & Control, Screening & Immunisation, Sexual Health and Substance Misuse. 

You should be comfortable in building trusted stakeholder relationships networks in a politically sensitive and/or changing environment with the ability to use effective influencing and negotiation skills in and beyond your own team. 

If you have any of the following qualifications, we would like to hear from you: 

• Adult nursing 
• Children’s nursing  
• Mental Health nursing 
• And/or a background in nursing education  

You must have an active NMC registration, and you will be expected to undertake an enhanced DBS check.   

There will be an expectation for you to travel and the postholder must have access to a car. Travel expenses will be reimbursed. Professional registration fees can also be recovered.  

If you would like an open and informal discussion regards this role then please contact; David Clark (Public Health Programme Manager) via email davidr.clark@lincolnshire.gov.uk

Applications will close on the 20/05/2026 at midnight.  Interviews will be held face to face on the week commencing 01/06/2026.

PLEASE NOTE: It is imperative that your personal statement clearly states why you have applied, how you meet the essential and desirable criteria for the role as set out in the Job Description (attached on LCC jobs Site) and what you feel you can bring to this role, the team and the wider County Council.

Please refer to our Job Information Pack here to support you in your application.

Please be advised that this position may be subject to a criminal record check.

On occasion we receive significantly more applications than expected for some vacancies and under such circumstances we reserve the right to bring forward the closing date of the advertisement. We therefore strongly advise you to apply for the role promptly to avoid disappointment should the closing date be brought forward. Please also note: once an application is submitted it is final and cannot be amended. If you withdraw your application, it cannot be reinstated and you will not be able to submit another application for that vacancy. If you have an issue with your submitted application, please contact recruitment@lincolnshire.gov.uk.

We operate a talent pool scheme whereby candidates who are not successful on this occasion may be considered for a period of up to 3 months for equal positions.

Lincolnshire County Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. 

A Smarter Working Employer

We have embraced new ways of working and hybrid working will be a feature of this role. You will be given a nominated contractual work base and you will be required to commute to this work base when necessary.  Working arrangements regarding hybrid working will be discussed as part of the appointment process.

Our technology platform and equipment is very good enabling you to connect and collaborate remotely. We require that you have in place good connectivity, and we will discuss during the recruitment process if support with this is needed.

Fluency Duty 

In accordance with Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016 (Fluency Duty), the ability to converse at ease with customers and provide advice in accurate spoken English is essential for the post.

Our values – collaborative, adaptable, eco-conscious, supportive, and responsible – guide everything we do. We’re looking for candidates who share these values and bring them to life in their work, helping us build strong teams and make a real difference in the communities we serve.