The National Redress Scheme is in its final stage, and there is urgent work to do. Before applications close, Knowmore is focused on helping as many survivors as possible understand their options, access legal advice and make informed decisions about applying for redress.
We are looking for Lawyers who want to use their legal skills in a role with real purpose.
About Knowmore
Knowmore is a free, independent and confidential community legal service. Knowmore currently has offices in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth and Darwin. Our work is trauma-informed, culturally safe and survivor-centered. We recognise that every person’s experience is different, and we are committed to providing advice and support in a way that is respectful, empowering and responsive to each client’s needs.
You will be part of a supportive and friendly team environment where collaboration, learning and wellbeing matter. We value people who bring empathy, sound judgement, cultural humility and a commitment to social justice.
About the Capability Development RSS Team
This is a small team of specialist lawyers and paralegals based across Knowmore’s offices. We assist the workers of Redress Support Services around the country who support survivors applying to the National Redress Scheme.
We support these services through legal advice and capability building assistance to Redress workers. Lawyers in this team are responsible for maintaining strong relationships with services, providing legal advice in writing and verbally and developing and delivering learning and education material. Training and capacity building is delivered by team members in large and small group training, one-on-one case consultations and in Communities of Practice and other stakeholder meetings. The role requires strong legal advice skills, as well as the ability to develop and maintain effective stakeholder relationships, understand the needs of different services and work collaboratively to support shared objectives.
What you’ll do
About you
You are a confident lawyer with strong skills in delivering complex legal advice. You are able to analyse complex legal issues, exercise sound legal judgement and provide clear, accurate and practical advice that is accessible to non-legal audiences. You have attention to detail and have a genuine interest in helping others build and develop their skills. You’re experienced in balancing competing priorities, multi-tasking, building stakeholder relationships, and working independently and collaboratively in a team. You are able to build trust and credibility with a range of stakeholders, manage competing demands and exercise sound judgement when determining priorities.
To be successful in this role, you will bring:
What we offer:
We know that in working with people who have experienced trauma it is important that our workplaces and employment conditions are also trauma informed.
Our workplaces provide time out spaces for our people to take a break and re-charge. There are couches, puzzles and always food!
We provide the following benefits:
How to apply
Your application must include:
· A cover letter outlining why you are applying for this position and your suitability for the role
· A resume with your skills, experience and qualifications
The role will be required to satisfactorily complete a National Police Records Check and Working with Children Check.
To apply or to find out further information about Knowmore, please visit https://knowmore.org.au/about-us/work-at-knowmore/
Applications will be screened as they are received.
We are committed to a trauma-informed and culturally safe approach, walking alongside victim-survivors every step of the way.
We recognise and value the strength that diversity brings to our work. We strongly encourage applications from individuals of all ages with diverse lived experiences and backgrounds, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, people from multicultural, multifaith and linguistically diverse communities, members of the LGBTQIA+ community and people with disability. Your unique perspective and voice are not only welcome—they are essential to the work we do.
The Royal Children's Hospital (RCH) has been providing outstanding care for Victoria's children and their families for over 147 years.
We are the major specialist paediatric hospital in Victoria and our care extends to children from Tasmania, southern New South Wales and other states around Australia and overseas.
With a passionate, highly skilled and committed staff campus wide of over 5,000, we provide a full range of clinical services, tertiary care and health promotion and prevention programs for children and young people.
We are the designated state-wide major trauma centre for paediatrics in Victoria and a Nationally Funded Centre for cardiac and liver transplantation.
When it comes to training and research we partner with the very best. Our campus partners, the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute (MCRI) and The University of Melbourne Department of Paediatrics, along with the RCH Foundation, are on site with the hospital in Parkville. Together, we are committed to improving the health outcomes for children today and in the future.
In 2016–17, more than 85,654 children attended our Emergency Department, 322,291 specialist clinic appointments were held which was almost 70,000 more than the previous year, more than 17,000 surgeries were performed and more than 48,552 children were admitted to our wards.
