Senior Lawyer

Company description:

Grampians Health exists to serve our communities across the Grampians region, providing complete care as close as possible to people's homes.

Job description:

About the Role

We're seeking an experienced Senior Lawyer to join our award-winning team on a part-time basis (0.6 FTE). We're a small team doing in-house law in an exciting and different way. We use good design and ground-breaking technology to support the delivery of human-centred, accessible legal services for Grampians Health.

Key Responsibilities

The Senior Lawyer will have a commercial focus and will be responsible for the drafting, review and negotiation of contracts and commercial matters for Grampians Health.

As part of a small team, you'll also assist with our core areas of service as required. This might include: health law, litigation, privacy, Freedom of Information, research, reporting obligations, consent to treatment, aged care, family law and children's law issues relevant to the Grampians Health functions, corporate governance, regulatory issues, intellectual property and leases of real property, insurance, statutory interpretation, probity and procurement, policies and procedures.

Key Attributes

You'll be:

• a confident and experienced senior lawyer, able to work autonomously (commercial and contracts) or with minimal support (other departmental matters);
• friendly and approachable, committed to offering stakeholder-focussed, pragmatic legal advice;
• happy to work with rapidly changing and competing priorities, where no two days are the same;
• willing to upskill and develop in other areas of law arising in public health legal practice;
• open-minded about new approaches to in-house law (plain-language legal services and contracting, automation, technology);
• willing to support the development of junior team members.

In return, we offer a rare part-time opportunity to work in a small, friendly team environment, supporting the incredible work of our public health system.

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Interested?

Click APPLY or if you wish to discuss the role prior to applying, contact Joanna Carter, Legal Services Administrative Coordinator on to arrange a confidential discussion.

About Grampians Health

Grampians Health provides healthcare to a large region at our campuses based in Ballarat, Dimboola, Edenhope, Horsham and Stawell.

Our mission is to deliver sustainable healthcare tailored to evolving community and workforce needs. We strive to enhance services and careers, providing quality healthcare to rural and regional communities. Joining Grampians Health means being part of a diverse team, with a variety of career opportunities in acute, maternity, mental health, allied health, aged care and support services.

Culture & Benefits

At Grampians Health, we recognise our staff are our greatest asset. We are committed to providing a safe and healthy environment for our staff, patients, residents, visitors, volunteers and contractors at all sites.

• Flexible work arrangements and purchase leave opportunities
• Salary packaging for living expenses such as rent/mortgage plus meals, entertainment & holidays
• Access to Fitness Passport membership
• Staff rewards and recognition programs

Diversity and InclusionAll appointments are subject to a satisfactory police records check, immunisation clearance and Working with Children check and/or NDIS Worker Screening Check.

All employees must be willing and able to wear Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) when required, which at a minimum is a surgical mask. Additional PPE requirements are role-dependent.

Grampians Health is a child safe organisation, committed to the safety and wellbeing of all children and young people. Grampians Health is committed to providing a diverse and inclusive workforce.

We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with disability, people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, mature age workers and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer (or questioning), intersex and asexual LGBTQIA+.