Legal Team Manager

6 days ago


Greater Adelaide SA, Australia Avant Full time

Avant is Australia’s leading medical defence organisation with a proud heritage of protecting Australian medical professionals for over 130 years.
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.
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’re expanding our MLAS teams across Australia to ensure we can continue to provide an excellent service to our members.
**The key responsibilities include**:

- Member of the management team for the MLAS, overseeing the operational functions of the service and providing input into strategic planning.
- Day-to-day management and support of a team of experienced medico-legal solicitors based across Australia, including after-hours where required.
- Delivery of 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
- Supervisory or people management experience.
- 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 for Avant Law?
- You would be working for Australia’s largest specialist medico-legal law firm.
- You are guaranteed a pipeline of work from your instructing client, Avant Insurance, who are co-located.
- You will get to work on a great variety and breadth of cases but with a focus on medical indemnity claims.
- You will be working in an open and collaborative environment with access to the top specialist medico-legal lawyers in the country.
- Comprehensive in-house professional development and career progression opportunities.
- Flexible working practices.

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.

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