Lawyer (Health) | Advance Your Legal Career in Public Healthcare

Bring your health law expertise to a collaborative legal team providing strategic advice across clinical governance, medico-legal matters, privacy, human rights and regulatory issues.

Job details

Your new role:

As a Lawyer (Health), you'll provide trusted legal advice across a diverse range of complex health and medico-legal matters while supporting the delivery of safe, high-quality healthcare throughout Metro South Health.  You will:

• Provide timely, practical legal advice on health law, consent, privacy, clinical governance, human rights, statutory interpretation and regulatory matters.
• Manage medical negligence and non-healthcare claims while supporting the Principal and Senior Lawyers across complex legal issues.
• Build strong relationships with clinicians, executives and external agencies including the Coroner, Health Ombudsman, Queensland Police and Queensland Health.
• Contribute to legal education, policy development, service improvement initiatives and mentoring of junior legal staff.

About you:

We're seeking an experienced legal professional who combines exceptional technical expertise with sound judgement, strong communication skills and a collaborative approach to delivering practical legal solutions. You are:

• Admitted (or immediately eligible for admission) as a solicitor or barrister in Queensland, with significant post-admission experience, ideally within health, government or a large corporate legal environment.
• An expert providing high-quality legal advice across complex health law, medico-legal, regulatory and legislative matters.
• An exceptional stakeholder amanager, have written communication and negotiation skills, with the ability to build trusted relationships across multidisciplinary environments.
• A proactive, organised professional who exercises sound judgement, manages competing priorities and contributes to continuous improvement, education and legal risk management.

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

INTEGRITY | 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)
  
  MS08687822 Role Description (PDF)