Advocate - Clerk Grade 6/7 - Civil - Ongoing

3 weeks ago

Sydney, Australia NSW Legal Aid Commission, Office of the Full time

**Advocate - Clerk Grade 6/7 - Civil - Ongoing**
- Ongoing - Full Time - 35 hours per week
- Clerk Grade 6/7 (between $100,010 - $109,194 plus super and annual leave loading)
- Mental Health Advocacy Service team
- Location - Central Sydney Office (Haymarket), flexible work location negotiable

**About us**

Legal Aid NSW helps people with their legal problems. We can help people with most areas criminal law, family law and every day civil law legal issues. We give legal advice, help at court and do family dispute resolution. We can do this over the telephone or at one of our 28 offices.

**About the role**

The role involves:

- providing high quality advocacy and case support services within a legal environment, including information gathering, systemic advocacy and case co
- ordination services for clients of the MHAS
- acting on referrals from lawyers and working alongside lawyers in achieving a common goal that accords with client instructions, applicable laws and regulations
- working within the confines of available services and supports

**About you**

You:

- hold suitable qualifications and experience in disability advocacy, especially where associated with mental illness and/or intellectual disability. This could include social work, welfare or other qualifications and experience in advocating for people in a health care settings, places of detention, including correctional centres as well as the community.
- are self-motivated and comfortable working independently in a legal setting that necessarily involves working in collaboration with lawyers in accordance with client instructions
- have excellent knowledge of disability services and supports
- have excellent negotiation skills that allow you to bring people and organisations together to achieve goals that accord with client instructions
- have experience in health care and/or justice settings in advocating for, and overcoming barriers to, access to services and other rights.
- have experience working with the NDIS and NDIS service providers and other funding streams such as NSW Health and My Aged Care.

We may use this recruitment to create a talent pool for similar ongoing or temporary vacancies we have over the next 18 months.

**WHY YOU SHOULD JOIN LEGAL AID NSW**

**We are committed to diversity and inclusion**

We are committed to creating a culturally safe and genuinely inclusive organisation and workplace for everyone who works and interacts with us. We strive to be a place where people from diverse backgrounds want to work, where voices and cultures are valued and where people feel valued, welcomed, respected and heard.

**Other benefits of working with us**
- You will have access to training, development and mentoring opportunities.
- We are an accredited Flex Ready certified employer and are recognised as leaders in the area of flexible work. Most of our staff work flexibly — for example, from home some of the time or in a way that helps them balance family and work life.

**The essential requirements for this role**

You must:

- be willing to do a Criminal Record Check and Working with Children Check
- hold Australian or NZ citizenship, Australian Permanent Residency (for ongoing vacancies) or a valid visa to work in Australia (for temporary vacancies)

**How to apply**
- your resume (no more than 5 pages)

**Do you need help to apply?**
- If you are an Australian Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander and are thinking about applying, you can contact the Aboriginal Services Branch to arrange a confidential conversation about any questions you may have.
- The Role Description sets out the responsibilities of the role.
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