Corporate Lawyer – Healthcare Sector – ASX Listed Company
- Make a difference to the health and wellbeing of Australians
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Work alongside and report directly to a leading sector General Counsel
- Friendly, flexible and supportive culture.
Large health and aged-care provider | Make a difference | Report directly to the General Counsel | Exclusively listed with Gatehouse Legal Recruitment
The Opportunity
Our client is an ASX listed company within the Australian health sector. Our client is devoted to caring Australians who need the love and care that they can provide. Here as a Senior Legal Counsel, you will have the opportunity to work alongside the General Counsel while being a key decision-maker in the business.
As a publicly listed company, today our client is one of Australia’s larger care operators, with over 60 facilities in SA, VIC, NSW and QLD. Care is provided for over 7,500 people every year while supporting them and their families at an incredibly difficult time in their lives.
The Role
- Provide legal advisory support across a wide range of different matters including health and aged care legislation, privacy law, regulatory issues, commercial law, property law, contracts, employment and safety law.
- Develop policies and practices to meet regulatory or statutory obligations and education of the business on legal risk management
- Assist the General Counsel in maintaining oversight of insurance matters, coronial matters and litigated matters.
- Maintain various internal registers (i.e., business names register, corporate registers and property ownership registers).
- Creation of training materials on legal risk management and providing education sessions to the business.
On Offer
On offer is:
- The opportunity to join a large national company that is a long established and successful brand in the Australian health and aged care service sector;
- The ability to report directly to the General Counsel who takes a personal interest in growing future executive leaders to thrive and reach their full potential;
- The ability to use your legal knowledge to really make a difference by helping some of the most vulnerable people in the community and contribute to improving the health and wellbeing of Australians;
- The opportunity to join a friendly, flexible and supportive culture in an organisation which sees its People as its greatest asset and the key to its ongoing and future success; and
- An excellent salary package.
The Ideal Candidate
- Minimum 5+ PAE;
- Have experience across the majority areas outlined above however those with a general commercial background are encouraged to apply;
- Any experience from the health, medical or aged care, or not-for-profit sector would be well regarded, however this is not essential.
