Principal Lawyer – Lead High-Impact Health Law in a Complex Public Sector Environment

Drive strategic legal outcomes, manage complex medico-legal matters, and influence governance at executive level while mentoring the next generation of legal professionals.

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Your new Role:

As Principal Lawyer, you will deliver expert, strategic legal advice across a broad portfolio including medico-legal, governance, litigation, and regulatory matters within Metro South Health. Operating with a high degree of autonomy, you will oversee complex legal issues, manage litigation and coronial matters, and provide trusted counsel to executives and senior leaders. You will also supervise and develop junior lawyers, strengthen organisational legal capability, and ensure robust compliance, risk management, and decision-making across the health service.

About You:

You are a highly experienced legal professional who thrives in complex environments, delivering strategic, solutions-focused advice while leading and developing others.

• Extensive experience in health law, litigation and regulatory matters
• Proven ability to deliver clear, timely and pragmatic legal advice
• Strong stakeholder engagement with executive-level influence
• Demonstrated leadership in mentoring and developing legal staff
• Exceptional judgement, risk management and decision-making skills

What we can offer you:

• We offer a family-friendly work environment that supports you in making the most of Queensland's laid-back lifestyle.
• We are renowned for teaching and research excellence with strong relations with Queensland's leading tertiary institutions.
• We want to empower you to build a long-term career, with countless opportunities to learn and grow, no matter your role
• You'll have all the benefits of working for Queensland's world-class public health system including generous leave entitlements, attractive salary and remuneration packages, salary packaging and access to relevant professional development allowances and/or leave, study and research assistance, corporate discounts and employee wellness programs.

About the Legal Team

The Metro South Health legal team pride themselves on delivering best practice legal advice and solutions to the organisation across a broad spectrum of areas, ranging from commercial and contract law issues to all aspects of health and medico-legal matters including coronial matters, human rights, anti-discrimination and administrative law.  We work within a fast-paced environment with competing priorities. 

The legal team has a crucial role to play in:

• Supporting the delivery of high quality, effective and efficient health services for our patients; and
• Legal risk management for MSH.

NTEGRITY | COMPASSION | ACCOUNTABILITY | RESPECT | ENGAGEMENT | EXCELLENCE

Our values were created by employees for employees to shape our culture and inspire positive interactions in the workplace. Diversity of ideas, skills, traditions, and customs is celebrated as one of our greatest strengths. Having a workforce that reflects and understands the needs and expectations of our community is important to delivering safe, kinder, and more inclusive care.

We recognise our strength comes from the diversity of our people and so we encourage people of all genders, ethnicities, ages, abilities, languages, sexual orientation, and family responsibilities to apply.

We are Metro South Health:

We are the major public healthcare provider for Brisbane's south side, Logan, Redlands, and the Scenic Rim operating five major hospitals and a range of community, specialty, and state-wide healthcare services.

We are bold, innovative, collaborative, inspiring. We save lives, change lives, and make the world a better place. We are part of and proud of the community we serve.

We are better together.

Further information

We are committed to building inclusive cultures in the Queensland public sector that respect and promote human rights and diversity.

Applicants are encouraged to apply online. Please review the Role Description for more information on application process requirements. Agency referrals will not be accepted for this position.

Documents

Before applying for this vacancy please ensure you read the documents below.

• Application essentials - things you need to know (PDF)
  
  We are MSH - five reasons why you should join us (PDF)
  
  MS05681074 Role Description (PDF)