Associate/Senior Associate/Special Counsel

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Brisbane, Österreich Avant Mutual Vollzeit

Associate/Senior Associate/Special Counsel - Medico-Legal Brisbane QLD, Australia Req #380 Wednesday, 30 October 2024 About Avant   Avant is Australia's leading medical defence organisation with a proud heritage of protecting Australian medical professionals for over 125 years.
Avant now represents 80,000 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.
Avant Law is looking to expand our Brisbane team and is therefore keen to speak with medico-legal solicitors with an unsupervised practising certificate.
If you're an Associate, Senior Associate or Special Counsel with experience in health law and a passion for supporting Australian doctors, we would love to speak with you about what job opportunities we have at Avant Law.
The key responsibilities include: This role will see you deliver high quality, timely legal advice and services in respect of a mix of professional conduct and civil matters to Avant Insurance claims managers and Avant's members.
Provide professional, thorough and effective legal service to achieve the best outcome for Avant's members.
Provide oral and written legal advice to members and Avant Insurance claims managers concerning civil claims and professional conduct matters including Medical Board investigations, Coronial inquests, Medicare reviews/Committees, investigations with the Office of the Health Ombudsman and employment matters.
Providing general medico-legal advice to Avant members.
Represent members in legal proceedings, including preparing for and attending court, tribunals or inquiries and through clear and persuasive advocacy achieve the best outcome for the member.
Participate in a roster for providing telephone medico-legal advice to Avant members including occasional after-hours availability.
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 Qld.
Demonstrated post admission experience in health law, including medical negligence and professional conduct related litigation.
Previous experience in conducting all phases of professional conduct cases.
The ability to express ideas effectively with proven excellent written and verbal communication skills.
High level of prioritisation, time management and self-management skills.
The ability to mentor and support junior team members.
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 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 solicitors in the country.
Flexible working practices.
We prefer to deal with candidates directly.
If you have any queries regarding this role, please do not hesitate to contact Lisa Craddock, Talent Acquisition Business Partner on ******.
#LI-LC1 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 our Careers team at ******.
Please note: Avant Mutual is a vaccinated employer.
Prior to the commencement of your employment by Avant, you are required to be fully vaccinated against the Covid-19 virus or have a medical certificate stating that you cannot receive a Covid-19 vaccination for valid medical reasons.
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