WHAT WE CAN OFFER

• Permanent full-time (part-time working arrangements considered)
• Generous salary packaging
• Great team culture - work with a team of passionate and caring professionals on meaningful work
• Additional paid leave - up to 10 days inclusive of public holidays over the Christmas / New Year period

About Working Women's Centre WA (WWCWA)

Working Women’s Centres provide free information, advocacy, advice and assistance to women on workplace issues, including workplace entitlements and rights, gender issues, cultural diversity, discrimination and sexual harassment. Women's Legal Service WA and Circle Green are working in partnership to form the Working Women’s Centre WA (WWCWA). The WWCWA service model is holistic, integrated, and trauma-informed, to ensure that issues in relation to the workplace are addressed in the context of women’s other needs.

About Circle Green Community Legal (Circle Green)

Circle Green is a community legal centre in Western Australia providing state-wide specialist legal services in employment, workplace discrimination, residential tenancy law, family and domestic violence, and humanitarian services aimed at assisting people who are otherwise disadvantaged in their access to legal services. Circle Green will collaborate with WLSWA to oversee the WWCWA. The WWCWA will also work closely with Circle Green's Workplace Respect Project.

About Women's Legal Service WA (WLSWA)

WLSWA is the only gender specific community legal centre in WA, delivering services to women who are financially disadvantaged, and who live with multiple vulnerabilities that creates other barriers to accessing justice. Socio-legal assistance is tailored to ensure continuity in support and mitigate re-traumatising clients. As a specialist legal service, WLSWA works alongside and compliments generalist community legal centre work. WLSWA also promotes women’s human rights to be upheld and fosters legal and social change through a range of strategic activities, including law and policy reform. WLSWA is the lead agency in the delivery of the WWCWA and will host the service hub and provide central coordination.

ABOUT THE ROLE

We are seeking Lawyers (unrestricted) to provide comprehensive legal advice, ongoing legal assistance , community legal education, and law reform contributions in the area of workplace law. The WWCWA Lawyers will work under the direct supervision of a Senior Lawyer and ultimate supervision of the Principal Lawyer – Workplace at Circle Green. Lawyers will also be responsible to the WWCWA Manager.

You will work closely with both WWCWA staff and Circle Green’s Workplace Stream as part of a multi-disciplinary team to provide clients with trauma-informed, effective, and accessible integrated socio-legal services to working women in WA. You will walk with clients and WWCWA social workers to ensure each client’s workplace issues are addressed in the context of their broader social needs. A client-centred approach and a commitment to ensuring a best practice integrated response for working women experiencing complex and intersecting needs are essential.

Based in the Perth office, Lawyers will be required to travel to undertake outreach circuits across regional WA.

Key Responsibilities of the role include:

• Legal advice. Delivering high quality, trauma informed and pragmatic legal advice on a wide range of employment law and workplace discrimination issues.
• Litigation work. Conduct casework, including legal tasks, pre-litigation representation, and court / tribunal representation in a range of workplace law jurisdictions.
• Integrated practice. Work with social workers, interpreters, disability advocates, financial counsellors and other support workers to meet clients’ broader needs and deliver accessible legal services.
• Strategic law reform and advocacy. Identify gaps and opportunities for meaningful reform of workplace laws for the benefit of working women in WA.

ABOUT YOU

Shortlisted candidates will have:

Credentials and Experience

• A law degree and admitted (or eligible for admission) as a legal practitioner in the Supreme Court of Western Australia and hold an unrestricted (or eligible to hold) WA practicing certificate.
• At least 2 years post admission experience.
• A demonstrated commitment to human rights and social justice issues, including advancing interests of women, reducing gender inequality and empowering women.

Skills

• Excellent written and verbal communications skills, with the ability to understand and convey complex concepts to people from diverse social, cultural and linguistic backgrounds.
• Ability to work effectively within a multi-disciplinary team and collaborate with internal and external stakeholders.
• Demonstrated problem solving, negotiation and conflict resolution skills.
• Ability to conduct casework and litigation, including advocacy skills.

This is an exciting and unique opportunity to play a key role in empowering and supporting women in the workplace.

Join a team of passionate and diverse, like-minded professionals committed to creating accessible justice, and providing best practice legal services in our specialist field.

If you have any questions or would like to have a confidential discussion about the role, please contact Human Resources at (08) 6148 3648 or by email to [email protected] using the subject line: Lawyer - Working Women Centre enquiry via EthicalJobs.

A position description is attached.