Job Summary
- $106,392 - $111,091 per annum + salary packaging
- Applications close:
- Job posted on: 27th Aug 2024
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 is implementing the Western Australian WWC in partnership with Circle Green, and who currently deliver the WA Workplace Respect Project. The WA WWC service model is holistic and trauma-informed, to ensure that issues in relation to the workplace are addressed in the context of women’s other needs.
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 Women's Legal Service WA to oversee the WA Working Women's Centre. The WA WWC will also work closely with Circle Green's Workplace Respect Project.
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.
We are seeking Lawyers (unrestricted) to provide comprehensive legal advice, casework, representation, community legal education & training, and law reform contributions in the area of workplace law under the direct supervision of Senior Lawyers and ultimate supervision of the Principal Lawyer – Workplace at Circle Green. Lawyers will also be responsible to the WA WWC Manager.
You will work closely with both WA WWC staff and Circle Green’s Workplace Stream as part of a multi-disciplinary team to provide clients with trauma-informed, effective, and accessible socio-legal services to working women in WA. You will walk with clients and WA WWC 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.
Shortlisted candidates will have:
Credentials and Experience
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's Centre WA enquiry via EthicalJobs.
The position description is attached.