Associate - Workplace Law Specialist
1 week ago
About Avant Mutual Group
Avant Mutual Group is a leading medical defence organisation with a proud heritage of protecting Australian medical professionals for over 125 years.
Avant Mutual Group represents 80,000 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.
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.
Job Summary
We are seeking an Associate or Senior Associate – Workplace Law to join the Incorporated Legal Practice Avant Law Limited in our Brisbane, Sydney, or Adelaide CBD team for a permanent, part-time role.
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 Avant's members.
- Reporting to the Legal Team Manager, Workplace Law Team, your role will include:
- Providing a professional, thorough, and effective legal service to achieve the best outcome for Avant Insurance and Avant's members.
- A broad remit of workplace law issues, including compliance, termination, discrimination, general protections, investigations, and disciplinary matters.
- Representing medical practitioners (public and private sectors) and medical practices in courts, tribunals, and inquiries and instructing counsel in complex cases.
- Contributing to the collective knowledge and learning of the Avant Law and Avant Insurance teams on employment, safety, and discrimination issues.
Requirements
- Relevant tertiary legal qualifications.
- Eligible to hold an unsupervised practising certificate as a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of NSW/SA/QLD (as relevant) and the High Court of Australia.
- Demonstrated post-admission experience (ideally over 3 years) in either respondent and/or applicant employment law.
- The ability to express ideas effectively with proven excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- High-level prioritisation, time management, and self-management skills.
- Good computer literacy and competency to work in an electronic document management environment.
Why Work at Avant Mutual Group?
At Avant Mutual Group, 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 work-life 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.
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