Senior Health Lawyer – Influence Critical Decisions in Public Healthcare

Provide expert medico-legal advice, shape risk strategy, and represent a leading health service in complex legal matters that impact patient care and organisational integrity.

Job details

Your new Role: 

As a Senior Health Lawyer, you will deliver high-level, pragmatic legal advice across a broad range of health law and medico-legal matters within a dynamic public healthcare environment. Working with minimal supervision, you'll manage complex issues including coronial inquests, medical negligence claims, regulatory investigations, and human rights matters. You will collaborate with senior stakeholders, represent the organisation in legal proceedings, and contribute to policy, education, and continuous improvement initiatives—ensuring legal compliance while supporting safe, high-quality patient care.

About You:

You are a highly skilled and solutions-focused legal professional who thrives in complex environments and delivers confident, pragmatic advice that drives positive outcomes. You will have:

• Extensive experience in health law/medico-legal matters
• Ability to manage complex cases with minimal supervision
• Strong advocacy skills in coronial and litigation matters
• Exceptional stakeholder engagement and negotiation ability
• Advanced written skills for high-level legal documentation
• Sound judgement with a strong focus on risk and compliance

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 MSH 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 privacy.  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.

• MS04680254 Role Description (PDF)
  
  Application essentials - things you need to know (PDF)
  
  We are MSH - five reasons why you should join us (PDF)