Associate - Medico Legal Advisory Service

**Job title**: Associate
**Location**: Perth, Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide
**Duration**: Permanent
**Job type**: Part-time, 3-days per week
Avant is Australia’s leading medical defence organisation with a proud heritage of protecting Australian medical professionals for over 130 years.
Avant's Medico-legal 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, we have expanded our MLAS team across Australia to ensure we can continue to provide an excellent service to our members. We are seeking an experienced health law Associate to join Avant Law as part of our national Medical Legal Advisory Service team. This role can be based in our Perth, Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane or Adelaide offices. This is a part-time role (3-days per week) working standard hours (if in Perth) or later start/finish times in the other states. Avant offers a hybrid working arrangement.
**The key responsibilities include**:

- This role will see you deliver high quality, timely legal advice and support to Avant’s members.
- Providing first-class telephone and written medico-legal advice to members.
- Providing support to the Avant Law and claims teams and other staff on medico-legal 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 self-management 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 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.

**About Avant**:
Avant now represents 90,000 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. 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.
Equal Opportunity Employer
Avant supports doctors so they can serve Australia's diverse communities. Having diversity in our workforce brings valuable perspectives and strengthens our ability to support healthcare professionals.
Our inclusive workplace is somewhere everyone can succeed.