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.

About This Role

Your new role:

As a Lawyer (Health), you will 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.

- 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 manager, with strong written communication and negotiation skills, and 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 robust 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 programmes.

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📌 Lawyer (Health) (Brisbane City)
🏢 Metro South Health
📍 Brisbane City