Just Healthy Families - Solicitor (Part Time)

We are now looking for a Part Time solicitor to work three days per week in the Just Healthy Families (JHF) program – the position can be based in the South, North or North-West of Tasmania and would involve providing legal advice, legal assistance, information, referral and secondary consultation services to clients and service providers across your region.  

The role will involve face to face outreach to the Child and Family Learning Centres and other partner sites in your region and some intra-state travel.  
The successful applicant will develop and provide community legal education and information sessions to identified health, education and social service partners and groups of clients as well as providing timely advice and referral via our state-wide 1800 number.   

This role requires excellent communication and organisational skills and an ability to build close working relationships with a range of health and social service partners. This is an exciting opportunity for someone who enjoys a changing working environment, working out in the community and diversity in daily tasks. 

If you are interested in contributing to improving the safety of women and children in Tasmania, and contributing the reducing the impact of family violence on Tasmanian families then this role is for you.  
 

The Solicitor will:

• Contribute to the operational objectives of the pilot program to provide outreach based legal services to women experiencing family violence and seek sustainable changes whilst securing safety of the client. 
• Visit identified Child and Family Learning Centres in their region and deliver timely and responsive legal services and information to the clients and staff of those Centres.  
• Work effectively both independently and in a team to contribute to the achievement of  the program and our organisational objectives.
• Demonstrate a high level of interpersonal skills, specifically in respect of managing and organizing workload to consider the schedules of clients, nurses, early childhood educators, GP’s and other health and social service partners.
• Ability to reflect on practice and to amend work practices to accommodate feedback.
• Ability to work in a flexible, adaptable and creative way to meet the funded deliverables.
• Exercise initiative in a dynamic and changing work environment.