Medical Law Team Leader Opportunity
We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Medical Law Team Leader to join our team in Ringwood/Dandenong, Victoria.
The role of Team Leader is responsible for supporting the Head of Practice to lead the high-performing team to achieve operational, financial, client, and people targets. You will be responsible for supervising and managing a team, supporting sustainable business development, and managing a complex file-load.
Your primary focus will be on strategic thinking, delivering strong financial and operational performance, leading and building a high-performing team, driving employee engagement, and running complex files. This includes developing others in leadership capability, legal expertise, case management skills, and client conversion and other learning and development initiatives as required.
* You will model, promote, and ensure team behaviors align with firm values.
* An active contributor to your practice group, you will support the Head of Practice through effective and engaging people management. You will play a key role in developing legal expertise and client care within your team; while effectively managing a file load of client matters, including achieving consistently high client conversion results, strong velocity/case progression, and high financial and operational targets.
* You will be an active contributor in practice group forums and initiatives.
* You will provide positive and effective leadership with your direct reports.
* You will mentor, coach, and support managers and others in the practice group to develop leadership and technical capability and manage underperformance.
* You will provide clear leadership on initiatives, actions, and activities within your practice group, with a key focus on retention, developmental growth, and improved engagement.
* You will monitor and ensure wellbeing and safety of staff (including managing leave entitlements).
Key Responsibilities:
* Supporting local engagement initiatives and contributing to a high-performing, effective, and collegiate working environment.
* Active support in driving the successful delivery of the performance cycle (set, grow, review) including identifying developments needs within your remit.
* Developing active involvement in recruitment, including building external networks.
Mastery of Legal Expertise, Client Experience & Supervision:
* Demonstrating a high level of expert and specialist knowledge in Medical Law.
* Supporting your practice group to provide high-quality legal advice and ensuring consistent delivery of quality client outcomes and care.
* Ensuring understanding and compliance to working methods, firm governance, and national practice standards across your practice group.
Running Our Business:
* In alignment with your Head of Practice, effectively managing the operation of your practice group, including budget delivery, revenue forecasts, file management strategies.
* Overseeing labor costs and effective workforce planning.
* Reporting on and forecasting ongoing staff performance with your Head of Practice.
* Working collaboratively with others to identify process efficiencies and practice management improvements.
* Supporting Head of Practice with change management initiatives when required.
Growing Our Business:
* Supporting ongoing business development plans and growth of your practice group.
* Demonstrating strong client conversion to maintain high file loads and sustainable pipelines of work.
* Providing feedback to Head of Practice about the quality and efficacy of new client triage and suggestions on how to improve.
* Informing Head of Practice of any industry or practice group trends/opportunities or competitor activity to influence marketing and BD strategy.
* Developing strong and trusted relationships with both internal and external key stakeholders, including regulators, law societies, the Courts, insurers/defendants, government, counsel, medical, and allied health professionals.
This is an exciting opportunity to take your career to the next level and become a key leader in our Medical Law team.