Wellbeing Manager

at  The Law Society of New South Wales

WELLBEING MANAGER

• Permanent full time role - 35 hours per week
• Flexible working environment with hybrid work model
• Located in the heart of Sydney’s CBD (Martin Place)
  The Law Society of NSW is Australia’s largest and most influential membership association for solicitors. We’re not all lawyers, but we work together to support the legal profession and ensure a just society for all.
  We are currently looking for a permanent full time Wellbeing Manager to join our Insights & Engagement team.

ABOUT THE ROLE

The Law Society offers a range of services and initiatives designed to proactively enhance positive mental health and wellbeing of over 33,000 members and practitioners from across NSW. The Wellbeing Manager is responsible for the identification, development, implementation and oversight of those services and initiatives, which support individual legal practitioners while also seeking to provide law practices with the appropriate resources and frameworks to improve wellbeing within their respective workplaces. This requires a strategic mindset and the necessity to develop a strong understanding of the challenges faced by solicitors in their occupational and personal lives.
As a senior member of the Insights & Engagement team, you will be a critical contributor to the identification, development and delivery of strategic initiatives and programs designed to service and support specific members of the profession through the various stages of their legal career journeys ensuring that all we do is underpinned by the need to ensure a thriving and successful legal profession in NSW.
This role is ideal for a professional with considerable experience in developing, implementing and managing wellbeing strategies.

WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING

• Identify, develop, implement, and manage a comprehensive wellbeing program tailored to the unique needs of legal professionals in consultation with internal and external stakeholder groups.
• In consultation with internal and external stakeholder groups, identify opportunities for the Society to improve its support of legal practitioners’ wellbeing, and developing solutions to effectively provide this support at both an individual and workplace level – this will include the identification of policies, frameworks and resources for law practices, corporate bodies, government departments, etc.
• Identify and develop wellbeing resources and guides.
• Play a key role in creating content and delivering the Society’s series of mental health and wellbeing seminars and training workshops with the Events, Continuing Professional Development and Communications teams.
• Assist and support the Society’s regulatory and practice support functions in relation to practitioner mental health and wellbeing issues where required.
• Manage the Society’s solicitor counselling service (Solicitor Outreach Service), including close liaison with the external psychology provider and the provision of regular management reporting on service usage and trends.
• Promote the Society as a mental health and wellbeing thought leader within the legal profession, including representation at events, key meetings and other forums related to these issues where appropriate.
• Monitor and remain knowledgeable on current industry research, trends, the output of similar organisations, and other issues affecting the legal profession with respect to mental health and wellbeing, including areas that are unique to specific segments of the profession itself.
• Provide subject-matter expert knowledge, input and feedback where required to various stakeholders within the Society ensuring the organisation’s content, services and public position remains contemporary and relevant to the needs of the legal profession.