Avant is Australia’s leading medical defence organisation with a proud heritage of protecting Australian medical professionals for over 130 years.
Avant now represents 90,000 health practitioners and medical students across every state and territory, delivering market leading products and services to meet their professional, personal and practice needs. Building on this heritage, our vision is to be the most trusted professional partner in supporting doctors throughout their lives and careers.
As a mutual organisation, owned by members and run purely for their benefit, our members are at the centre of all we do. As well as providing products and services to our member, we play a broader community role by advocating for improvements in the healthcare system and in quality, safety and professionalism in medicine, through delivering education and research activities.
We are seeking an Associate or Senior Associate – Workplace Law to join Avant in our Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne or Adelaide teams. This is a permanent position and we are open to considering both part-time and full-time candidates.

THE KEY RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE:

• This role will see you deliver high quality, timely legal advice and services in respect of workplace law matters to the claims department of Avant Insurance and Avant’s members.
• Reporting to the Legal Team Manager, Workplace Law Team, your role will include:
• Provide a professional, thorough and effective legal service to achieve the best outcome for Avant Insurance and Avant’s members.
• A broad remit of workplace law issues, including compliance, termination, discrimination, general protections, investigations and disciplinary matters.
• Representing medical practitioners (public and private sectors) and medical practices in courts, tribunals and inquiries and instructing counsel in complex cases.
• Contributing to the collective knowledge and learning of the Avant Law and Avant Insurance teams on employment, safety and discrimination issues.

TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN THIS ROLE YOU WILL HAVE:

• Relevant tertiary legal qualifications.
• Eligible to hold an unsupervised practising certificate as a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of NSW/SA/QLD/VIC (as relevant) and the High Court of Australia.
• Demonstrated post admission experience (ideally over 3 years) in either respondent and/or applicant employment law.
• The ability to express ideas effectively with proven excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• High level of prioritisation, time management and self-management skills.
• Good computer literacy and competency to work in an electronic document management environment.

Why work for Avant Law?

• You would be working for Australia’s largest specialist medico-legal law firm.
• You are guaranteed a pipeline of work from your instructing client, Avant Insurance, who are co-located.
• You will get to work on a great variety and breadth of cases but with a focus on medical indemnity claims.
• You will be working in an open and collaborative environment with access to the top specialist medico-legal lawyers in the country.
• Comprehensive in-house professional development and career progression opportunities.
• Flexible working practices.

Why work at Avant?

• At Avant, our people are the centre of everything we do for our members. We offer a range of benefits and opportunities to enable you to make a difference, learn, and grow in your career.
• We value our people by offering an inclusive workplace with a diverse range of benefits, flexible working options, career development, and internal mobility opportunities. Our flexible working arrangements are designed to enable genuine work-life balance.
• Your development is our priority and we have a variety of learning and development programs that will support you in your career.
• We offer support to our people via Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Health and Wellbeing programs, Tertiary Education Sponsorship and Support.
• We have a diverse and connected work environment where your contribution and ideas will be valued and respected and make a real difference to the lives of others.

For further information please contact Lisa Craddock, Talent Acquisition Business Partner on lisa.craddock@avant.org.au.

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