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Perth - Australia

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Not Disclosed

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Job Description

Avant is Australias leading medical defence organisation with a proud heritage of protecting Australian medical professionals for over 130 years.
Avant now represents 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 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.

Avants Medicolegal Advisory Service (MLAS) provides expert advice to help minimise the chance of a complaint or claim occurring. Due to the consistent growth Avant Mutual has experienced in recent years were expanding our MLAS team across Australia to ensure we can continue to provide an excellent service to our members. For this reason we are seeking an experienced health law Associate or Senior Associate to join Avant Law as part of our national Medical Legal Advisory Service team. This role is based in our Perth office. We are open to both fulltime and parttime candidates and offer a hybrid working arrangement.

The key responsibilities include:

  • This role will see you deliver high quality timely legal advice and support to Avants members.
  • Providing firstclass telephone and written medicolegal advice to members.
  • Providing support to the Avant Law and claims teams and other staff on medicolegal and health law matters.
  • Giving presentations to members and staff and writing website content articles and other member communications on relevant topics.

To be successful in this role you will have:

  • Relevant tertiary legal qualifications.
  • Eligible to hold a practising certificate as a Solicitor of the Supreme Court and the High Court of Australia.
  • Demonstrated post admission experience in health law is preferred.
  • The ability to express ideas effectively with proven excellent written and verbal communication skills.
  • High level of prioritisation time management and selfmanagement skills.
  • Good computer literacy and competency to work in an electronic document management environment.

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 worklife 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
#LILC1

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