Senior Associate - Workplace Law (open on location)

Avant is Australia’s leading medical defence organisation with a proud heritage of protecting Australian medical professionals for over 130 years.

Avant now represents over 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 either two Senior Associates or one Associate and one Senior Associate to join Avant Mutual's Workplace Law Team on a part-time or full-time basis. Ideally we are looking for candidates based in our Melbourne office, but we are also open to considering interstate-based candidates.

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:

• Provide a professional, thorough and effective legal service to achieve the best outcome for Avant Insurance and Avant’s members.
• Manage a caseload of workplace law issues, including compliance, termination, discrimination, investigations and disciplinary matters.
• Representation of medical practitioners (public and private sectors) and medical practices in courts, tribunals and inquiries and instructing counsel in complex cases.
• Provide oral and written legal advice to Avant members and practices and Avant Claims Managers concerning legal claims and/or complaints and also general workplace law health law advice.
• Represent members in courts and/or tribunals and/or commissions and/or inquiries.
• For a Senior Associate role, assist the Legal Team Manager – Workplace Law Team as requested in supervising and mentoring more junior Solicitors in the team and coordinating the work of the team.
• 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 in the relevant jurisdiction.
• Demonstrated post admission experience in employment and workplace litigation (ideally 2-4 years’ PAE for an Associate and over 5 years’ PAE for a Senior Associate), and adjacent fields (e.g. unlawful discrimination) with minimal supervision.
• 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 workplace law and employment claims.
• You will be working in an open and collaborative environment with flexible working practices.
• Comprehensive in-house professional development and career progression opportunities.

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 Camilla Overall, Senior Talent Acquisition Business Partner on ***email_hidden***.

Avant supports doctors so they can serve Australia's diverse communities. Having diversity in our workforce brings valuable perspectives and strengthens our ability to support healthcare professionals.

We therefore welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, people from culturally diverse communities, LGBTQIA+ individuals, people with disabilities, and those with caring responsibilities.

Our inclusive workplace is somewhere everyone can succeed.

Ready to join us? If you're passionate about supporting Australia's healthcare professionals, we'd love to hear from you. If you require any adjustments during the recruitment process, please don't hesitate to contact us at *******@avant.org.au