We bring true purpose, authentic people and a proven path. You bring you. Want to work in a place that supports you to achieve and grow? Love to be helping clients and supporting teams? Join us and be the professional and the person you want to be. The Opportunity At Shine, we champion better justice for our clients. As an experienced Senior Legal Assistant or Law Clerk in a plaintiff personal injury law firm, you'll become a permanent Practice Support Lead / Senior Paralegal in our Medical Law team based in our Melbourne CBD office. You’ll lead our legal support team to make a meaningful, long-lasting impact for our clients. Want a job that provides real career progression to kick start or further advance your legal career? You'll be part of a truly connected team of authentic people who are as passionate as you are. And you’ll be visible and valued for who you are and what you bring. With empathy, adaptability and initiative, you will be a true champion of our clients by: Recruiting, managing and coaching all legal support team members, completing performance reviews and personal and professional development plans. Being responsible for the administrative, transactional and non-legal operations of the practice. Efficiently drafting legal documents and correspondence in a concise, timely and effective manner. Driving the administrative workflow for the office, with a focus ensuring KPI’s are set and targets are met or exceeded in relation to effective time recording, productivity and recoverability, and minimising net WIP write offs. Leading and coordinating projects focused on continuous improvement and process enhancement. Cultivating strong relationships with our clients, Shine employees, Counsel and other external stakeholders. Supporting our Legal team with optimising the use of internal systems to process information. What you’ll bring Experience as a Senior Paralegal or Law Clerk or Senior Legal Assistant, or similar position, in a plaintiff personal injury law firm is preferred. Experience working in medical negligence or personal injuries is preferred. Proficient computer literacy. Proficient verbal and written communication skills Proven ability to proactively manage own workload and guide the workload of others. Proven ability to identify efficiencies and impact continuous improvement. Experience coaching and developing others is highly desirable but not essential for success. Shine Lawyers: A place for you. It means more here. At Shine, purpose really matters. It’s our clients, who summon the courage to stand up to injustice. It’s the communities we are part of and support every day. It’s our team, who champion what’s right and make this place what it is. We’re an ASX-listed organisation, and we've been standing up for the rights of everyday Australians for more than 45 years. We’ve achieved a lot but you’ll find no airs and graces here. We’re humble yet relentless. We don’t pretend to be anything other than ourselves. And together, we’ve created a place for you to thrive. Here are some of the things we hope you’ll love about working with us: Connect and be you: Get the benefits you need, and work with truly authentic people. And you can enjoy the security of a large, well-established firm that treats you as a person, not a number. Challenge and be challenged: We’re not here for “easy”. We want you to take your place at Shine and make a real impact. Question and challenge - that’s how we grow. Achieve and grow: Start your Shine journey with our in-house learning programs, where you’ll find immediate connection and be set up for success. You will be provided real opportunities to step up and grow - within your role and beyond. Visit https://www.shine.com.au/careers/life-shine to find out more and read the stories of our incredible people. Excited to join us and stand up to injustice? Join us and build a career that means so much more. Apply now and make Shine Justice a place for you. As part of The Circle Back Initiative, we want you to feel supported through our recruitment process, which means that you will hear back from our friendly team – no matter the outcome. We are committed to making Shine Lawyers a place for you by encouraging and supporting our people to bring their authentic selves to the workplace, and as a result, we know you’ll put your best self forward while righting wrong for our clients. We’re passionate about maintaining a diverse and inclusive environment here at Shine that celebrates all of our differences with age, disability, ethnicity, gender and sexual orientation, to name a few, and we encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander candidates. You bring you.