Solicitor - Health Law
Solicitor - Health Law
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Job Description
Avant Law is a National specialist law firm looking for a Solicitor to join our team in Melbourne working closely with specialist Head of Practice Caroline Tuohey and joining a team of purposedriven lawyers (including senior lawyers Madhavi Ligam and Fraser Oakley who are passionate about defending medical practitioners. If you are looking for a law firm without daily billable targets and instead focussed upon collaboration advocacy and making a difference for doctors we want to hear from you.
This is an opportunity for a lawyer with PQE 1 3 years to develop their career working for Australias largest specialist medical defence law firm that has been recognised for its wide range of expertise. This is a permanent fulltime role with a hybrid work arrangement.
The key responsibilities include:
- This role will see you deliver high quality timely legal advice and services in respect of Professional Conduct matters to Avant Insurance claims managers and Avants members concerning professional conduct matters including Medical Board investigations Coronial inquests Medicare reviews/Committees HCCC claims and preparing hearings for VCAT.
- Providing general medicolegal advice to Avant members and Claims Managers.
- Appear on behalf of medical practitioners before the Medical Board of Australia VCAT Coroners Court Medicare and HCC.
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 Victoria and the High Court of Australia.
- Demonstrated post admission experience (between 1 3 PQE in medical negligence professional conduct related litigation and criminal law experience is preferred but other backgrounds will be considered.
- 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 for Avant Law
- You would be working for Australias largest specialist medicolegal law firm.
- You are guaranteed a pipeline of work from your instructing client Avant Insurance who are colocated.
- You will work with eventbased billing (goodbye 6 minute units and daily billable targets!
- You will get to work on a great variety and breadth of cases but with a focus on medical indemnity claims.
- Avant Law offers a defined career progression and promotion pathway.
- You will be working in an open and collaborative environment with access to the top specialist medicolegal solicitors in the country.
- Flexible working practices offering hybrid working.
- 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.
To learn more about this role please reach out to Lisa Craddock Talent Acquisition Business Partner on .
Other details
- Pay typeSalary
Employment Type
Full-Time
