Senior Associate Workplace Law (open on location)

Avant is Australias leading medical defence organisation with a proud heritage of protecting Australian medical professionals for over 130 now represents over 90000 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 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 are seeking either two Senior Associates or one Associate and one Senior Associate to join Avant Mutuals 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 key responsibilities: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 Avants 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 Avants 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 members in courts and/or tribunals and/or commissions and/or 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 to the collective knowledge and learning of the Avant Law and Avant Insurance teams on employment safety and discrimination 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 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 ability to express ideas effectively with proven excellent written and verbal communication level of prioritisation time management and self-management computer literacy and competency to work in an electronic document management environment. Why work for Avant LawYou would be working for Australias largest specialist medico-legal law are guaranteed a pipeline of work from your instructing client Avant Insurance who are will get to work on a great variety and breadth of cases but with a focus on workplace law and employment will be working in an open and collaborative environment with flexible working in-house professional development and career progression 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 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 development is our priority and we have a variety of learning and development programs that will support you in your offer support to our people via Employee Assistance Program (EAP) Health and Wellbeing programs Tertiary Education Sponsorship and 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 further information please contact Camilla Overall Senior Talent Acquisition Business Partner on