SCHADS Level 5

Launceston

Closes 30 January 2026

Position Description - Just Healthy Families Solicitor (Level 5)

Women’s Legal Service Tasmania (WLST) and Tasmania Legal Aid (TLA) have collaborated to offer Tasmania’s first Health Justice Partnership – Just Healthy Families (JHF). Both WLST and TLA run programs with a family violence focus, with WLST also being able to provide integrated social supports to clients experiencing family violence through financial counselling and social work. You can read more about each organisations approach to community legal assistance through their strategic plans found on their websites.

JHF partners with Child and Family Learning Centres (Department of Children, Education and Young People), Child Health and Parenting Centres (Department of Health), Hobart Women’s Shelter, and other service providers such as community services, general practitioners and other allied health professionals. More information about how Health Justice Partnerships operate can be found through the Health Justice Australia website.

The JHF program provides assistance across a range of legal areas including family law, child protection, family violence, housing, debt, and victims of crime compensation and aims to reduce the impact of family violence on all Tasmanians. We offer a unique and holistic service response to clients across the state with the goal of improving the safety and wellbeing of Tasmanian families and achieving gender equity. Our solicitors specialise in family violence and trauma informed practice.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Visit identified Child and Family Learning Centres (CFLCs) in north and north-west Tasmania, and deliver timely and responsive legal services and information to the clients and staff of these centres, providing high-quality legal advice, information, referral, and secondary consultation services in relation to matters in both State and Federal jurisdictions, ensuring efficient, appropriate and plain language service delivery, including preparation of documents, forms and correspondence.

• Work effectively both independently and in a team to contribute to the achievement of the program and JHF objectives, demonstrating a high level of interpersonal skills, specifically in respect of managing and organizing workloads to consider the schedules of clients, nurses, early childhood educators, GPs and other health and social service partners.

• Provide an integrated and holistic client service, working with social workers and financial counsellors to address both legal and non-legal needs of clients.

• Assist to develop and co-deliver community legal education activities and resources, training and outreach programs in line with the work of the organisation, working collaboratively with key stakeholders to deliver these services.

• Assistance with research, preparation and presentation of law reform and lobbying submissions, working in consultation with other staff and key stakeholders to prepare submissions with reference to Women’s Legal Service Tasmania’s Strategic Plan.

SCHADS Level 5

Hobart

Closes 20 February 2026

Position Description - Solicitor (Level 5)

Under the supervision of the Principal Solicitor, the Solicitor will provide a high level of supportive, plain language legal advice, information and referral to women who contact our 1800 Advice Line and through our various outreach programs. Where appropriate, ongoing casework including Court representation will be undertaken. A large percentage of calls received by WLST relate to family law, family violence, and child protection issues, however, calls can relate to any area of the law so a commitment to professional development is important.

The provision of community legal education (CLE) workshops, drafting of law reform and lobbying submissions, along with organisational and administrative responsibilities are also a component of this position.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Provide high-quality legal advice, information, referral, casework, and representation to clients in both State and Federal jurisdictions, ensuring efficient, appropriate and plain language service delivery, including preparation of documents, forms and correspondence.

• Work within WLST’s Provide an integrated and holistic client service model, where lawyers work in partnership working with social workers and financial counsellors to support clients to address both legal and non-legal needs of clients.

• Assist to develop and co-deliver community legal education activities and resources, training and outreach programs in line with the work of the Organisation, working collaboratively with key stakeholders to deliver these services.

• Maintain and develop relationships with key stakeholders in order to deliver outreach services to the community, with a focus on working in an integrated and collaborative manner.

• Assist with research, preparation and presentation of law reform and lobbying submissions, working in consultation with other staff and key stakeholders to prepare submissions with reference to WLST’s Strategic Plan.

• Be responsible for your own administrative work with the support of our paralegal team. The administrative team provides some administrative support, however the nature of funding for community legal services does not enable full administrative support.

SCHADS Level 6

Launceston

Closes 20 February 2026

Position Description - Outreach Solicitor (Level 6)

Under the supervision of the Principal or Assistant Principal Solicitor, the Solicitor will provide a high level of supportive, plain language legal information, advice and tasks for clients in outreach locations and deliver community legal education to women in rural and regional North-East Tasmania.      

The provision of community legal education (CLE) workshops, drafting of law reform and lobbying submissions, along with organisational and administrative responsibilities are also a component of this position.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Visit identified outreach locations in North-East Tasmania and deliver timely and responsive legal support to clients through the provision of high-quality legal information, advice, and referral to clients in both State and Federal jurisdictions.

• Provide efficient, appropriate and plain language services, including the preparation of documents, forms and correspondence.

• This role may also involve some casework and representation, guided by both client need, eligibility and the capacity of the organisation.

• Work within WLST’s integrated and holistic client service model, where lawyers work in partnership with social workers and financial counsellors to support clients to address both legal and non-legal needs of clients.

• Assist to develop and co-deliver community legal education activities and resources, training and outreach programs in line with the work of the organisation, working collaboratively with key stakeholders to deliver these services.

• Maintain and develop relationships with key stakeholders in order to deliver outreach services to the community, with a focus on working in an integrated and collaborative manner.

• Assist with research, preparation and presentation of law reform and lobbying submissions, working in consultation with other staff and key stakeholders to prepare submissions with reference to WLST’s Strategic Plan.

• Be responsible for your own administrative work with the support of our paralegal and administration teams, (the nature of funding for community legal services does not enable full administrative support).