Associate or Senior Associate Medico Legal Advisory Service (open to location)

Avant Law is a national specialist law firm looking for an Associate or Senior Associate to join our Medico-Legal Advisory Service (MLAS) team working closely with the MLAS Head of Practice and Legal Team Managers as part of a national practice. If you are looking for a law firm focussed upon collaboration mentoring advocacy and making a difference for doctors we want to hear from is an opportunity for a healthcare lawyer to progress their career and join a specialist team of lawyers. Where possible we provide flexibility around daily/weekly hours and working days to support both the team and the members we is a permanent part-time position with hybrid working arrangements. The role can be based in any of our offices across the MLA service is provided 24/7 in emergencies the role involves participating in the after-hours roster 2-3 times per year and may involve working on public holidays. The key responsibilities include:This role will see you deliver high quality timely medico-legal advice and support to Avants members including but not limited to:Providing first-class telephone advice and support and written medico-legal advice to support to the Avant Law and claims teams and other staff on medico-legal and health law with the Head of the MLAS team the Legal Team Managers and other MLAS advisers on ideas and plans for new resources / ways of with the development and maintenance of the health law knowledge database Giving presentations to members and staff as well as contributing to website content articles and other member communications on relevant be successful in this role you will have: A minimum of 4 years PQE with demonstrated post admission experience in the medico-legal tertiary legal qualifications with a current unsupervised practising certificate as a Solicitor in AustraliaAppropriate telephone manner and confidence to manage difficult / distressed callers/members externally via the 24/7 medico-legal advice to demonstrate effective listening and problem-solving skills (practical empathetic supportive).Collaborative and supportive team player with strong time management up to date knowledge on medico-legal topics / the issues arising from the changing health landscape would be highly work for Avant LawYou would be working for Australias largest specialist medico-legal law are guaranteed a pipeline of will get to advise on a great variety and breadth of medico legal matters from across will be working in an open and collaborative environment with access to the top specialist medico-legal solicitors in the country as well as in-house medical working practices. Avant is Australias leading medical defence organisation with a proud heritage of protecting Australian medical professionals for over 130 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 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 prefer to deal with candidates directly. For further information on this role please contact Camilla Overall Senior Talent Acquisition Business Partner on for a confidential discussion or apply via the advert link.