Senior Legal Counsel – Nudgee

The Role

Mercy Community is seeking an experienced Senior Legal Counsel to join our Legal, Governance and Risk Team. This role is a Permanent Full-Time role based at our Nudgee office with hybrid working options available.. 

Reporting to the General Counsel & Company Secretary, the Senior Legal Counsel will provide commercially focussed legal advice and play a key role in the management of legal matters, providing high quality support and advice to the

organisation. This is an exciting time to join Mercy Community as we introduce a new strategic plan and revise our organisational mission. Mercy Community provides a purposed focused, fast-paced working environment with a great variety of work and matters.

 Key responsibilities include:

• providing commercially focussed legal advice on a range of matters, including general commercial and contractual advice, legislative and regulatory obligations and compliance (including in aged care, retirement villages, child protection), privacy law, labour hire, and employment matters;
• assisting with responding to and liaising with regulators
• acting as Privacy Officer and responding to requests for personal information, subpoenas etc;
• assisting with insurance matters;
• assisting in dispute resolution
• drafting, reviewing, and negotiating various contracts, including brokerage agreements, supply of goods and/or services agreements, IT agreements, and government contracts
• Review and advise on legislation applicable to the service streams

Salary commensurate with experience plus superannuation plus salary packaging available

About you

To be successful, you will:

• hold a Bachelor of Laws
• be qualified as a Legal Practitioner in Queensland and hold a current unrestricted practising certificate
• have prior experience practising in a heavily regulated environment and knowledge of government agreements and contracts
• strong interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate effectively with people at all levels of the organisation
• Be values focused, with the ability to role model the organisation’s mission and values
• be agile and responsive to the organisation’s needs and have the ability to manage conflicting priorities and tight deadlines

Why Mercy Community

Mercy Community is a Catholic not-for-profit organisation that provides aged care services and families and young people services across Queensland. We are driven by our values of Compassion, Integrity, Dignity & Empowerment

Being part of the Mercy Community, means you will have access to some fantastic benefits, such as:

• Generous salary packaging of up to $18,550 per annum of your salary is available as a tax-free component
• Hybrid working options available for up to 2 days per week
• Our employee assistance program which provides professional and confidential counselling services  for you and your family Free annual influenza vaccinations
• Memberships of Benyfits –an employee benefits program designed to help you save money on living costs

Please note we will review applications as they are received and we may interview and appoint prior to closing date, do not delay in applying.

For any queries, please contact MCSCareers.Mailbox@mercycs.org.au. We do not accept applications via email so please ensure you apply online.

Mercy Community Services is a Circle Back Initiative Employer and commits to respond to every applicant.