Senior Associate - Medico-Legal Professional Conduct - Part-timeSydney NSW, Australia Req #268
Thursday, 12 September 2024
About Avant Avant is Australia's leading medical defence organisation with a proud heritage of protecting Australian medical professionals for over 125 years. Avant now 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.
We are seeking a Senior Associate to join Avant Law in our Sydney team for a permanent, part-time role, 3 days per week. The key responsibilities include: Deliver high quality, timely legal advice and services in respect of Professional Conduct matters to Avant Insurance claims managers and Avant's members.Provide professional, thorough and effective legal service to achieve the best outcome for Avant's members.Provide oral and written legal advice to members and Avant Insurance claims managers concerning professional conduct matters including Medical Board investigations, Coronial inquests, Medicare reviews/Committees, HCCC claims and preparing hearings for the New South Wales Civil & Administrative Tribunal.Provide general medico-legal advice to Avant members and Claims Managers.Represent members in legal proceedings, attend court, tribunals or inquiries and through clear and persuasive advocacy achieve the best outcome for the member.Participate in a roster for providing telephone medico-legal advice to Avant members including occasional after-hours availability. To be successful in this role you will have: Relevant tertiary legal qualifications.Eligible to hold an unsupervised practising certificate as a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of NSW and the High Court of Australia.Demonstrated post admission experience (ideally over 5 years) in medical negligence, professional conduct related litigation and criminal law experience is preferred.Previous experience in conducting all phases of professional conduct cases.The ability to express ideas effectively with proven excellent written and verbal communication skills.High level of prioritisation, time management and self-management skills.The ability to mentor and support junior team members.Good computer literacy and competency to work in an electronic document management environment. Why work for Avant Law? Work for Australia's largest specialist medico-legal law firm.Guaranteed pipeline of work from your instructing client, Avant Insurance, who are co-located.Opportunity to work on a great variety and breadth of cases with a focus on medical indemnity claims.Work in an open and collaborative environment with access to top specialist medico-legal solicitors in the country.Flexible working practices.
We prefer to deal with candidates directly. If you have any queries regarding this role, please do not hesitate to contact Lisa Craddock, Talent Acquisition Business Partner on ******.
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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Please note: Avant Mutual is a vaccinated employer. Prior to the commencement of your employment by Avant, you are required to be fully vaccinated against the Covid-19 virus or have a medical certificate stating that you cannot receive a Covid-19 vaccination for valid medical reasons.
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