Job title:
Staff Attorney, Harbor-UCLA Hospital Medical-Legal-Community Partnership
Company
Bet Tzedek Legal Services
Job description
For over 50 years, Bet Tzedek Legal Services has provided high-quality, free legal services to Los Angeles’ most vulnerable residents. Today, delivery of those legal services requires innovation and partnership. Bet Tzedek’s Harbor-UCLA Medical Legal Partnership embodies this reality. With legal staff co-located at the medical center, Bet Tzedek collaborates with medical professionals to holistically address community members’ social determinants of health through legal advocacy. Bet Tzedek seeks a full-time staff attorney to join this dynamic and innovative team.This position is eligible for Bet Tzedek Legal Services’ hybrid/remote workplace designation, however, the employee will be required to regularly work at the Harbor-UCLA Hospital, complete home visits, and work in the office or other locations to meet workload/business obligations.ESSENTIAL DUTIES:
- Work with medical center staff to identify and refer patients with legal assistance needs to Bet Tzedek.
- Provide patients/clients from diverse backgrounds with culturally competent, person-centered, trauma-informed legal intake and services on-site at the medical center.
- Provide advice and counsel, limited service, and full scope representation on behalf of DHS/DMH patients referred to Bet Tzedek from the medical center on a range of basic poverty law areas including but not limited to housing access, public benefits (e.g., SSI/CAPI, Medi-Cal, IHSS, CalFresh, etc.), consumer debt, employment rights, expungements, advance planning (e.g., advance health care directives, financial powers of attorney, etc.), probate court matters (e.g., conservatorship and guardianship), and immigration.
- Clearly and professionally communicate with clients, legal partners, hospital personnel, courts, agencies, and the public.
- Develop, lead, and/or promote education programs for medical center staff, County employees, and community members.
- Participate in medical legal partnership clinics, home-visits and other client service or community outreach events.
- Help train, mentor, and place matters with pro bono attorneys.
- Work closely with Director of Pro Bono Programs to recruit, train, and supervise law students and lawyers to join as in-house volunteers.
- Work closely with the Directing Attorney to track client data and report on outcomes.
Salary:$82, 221.99 – $102,231.38 (DOE/DOQ)
- Active member of the California State Bar in good standing (required).
- Minimum three years full-time practice of law (required).
- Willingness to train and work with volunteer attorneys and students (required).
- Access to reliable transportation (required).
- Ability to work effectively with hospital personnel, staff, volunteers, students, attorneys, and community members (required).
- Intermediate/Advanced Spanish-language proficiency, including oral interpretation and written translation (preferred).
- Minimum two years non-profit legal services experience, or equivalent experience in housing law, public benefits, consumer debt, employment rights, expungements, advance planning, family law, or immigration law (preferred).
- Maintain case files in a manner that meets relevant policies, procedures, and requirements (required).
- Self-motivated, takes initiative, ability to learn quickly (required).
- Ability to prioritize tasks, manage time, and meet deadlines in a high-volume caseload environment (required).
- Understanding of and commitment to Bet Tzedek’s mission of equal justice for all and Bet Tzedek’s core values of leadership, community-based advocacy, and innovation (required).
- Commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion (required).
BENEFITS PACKAGE:Bet Tzedek offers an excellent benefits package in addition to competitive salaries. These benefits currently include:
- A generous number of paid holidays (up to 21 per year), vacation (up to 20, depending on number of years with agency), and sick days (up to 45) annually.
- Personal and floating holidays
- Compensatory time for exempt employees.
- 18 weeks of paid parental leave (after 1 year of employment.)
- Various paid leaves
- Medical, dental, vision, chiropractic and acupuncture coverage for employees and dependents, with office visit co-pay reimbursement for HMO enrollees.
- Life/accidental death and dismemberment (AD&D) insurance, long-term disability insurance, and Employee Assistance Plan.
- Voluntary (employee-contributed) life/AD&D, accident, critical illness, hospital confinement, and pet insurance.
- Employee-contributed 401(k) plan.
- Employee-contributed 403(b) plan.
- Healthcare and childcare flexible spending accounts.
- Commuter transit and/or parking benefits.
HOW TO APPLY:
- Email letter of interest, resume, and writing sample to bettzedek.9B.64E@applynow.io, subject: “MLP, Staff Attorney.”
Note: All positions are subject to funding; ongoing funding or employment cannot be assured.Bet Tzedek is a unionized environment. Our salary range for unionized positions reflects our agreed upon step placement system, and the final offer extended to candidates is based on an internal equity review and candidates’ relevant experience, skills, background, and bar date, if applicable.To best serve our communities, Bet Tzedek seeks diverse staff with cultural competency reflecting our client populations. We strongly encourage candidates from traditionally underrepresented communities and historically oppressed groups to apply.
Expected salary
$82221.99 – 102231.38 per year
Location
Los Angeles, CA
Job date
Wed, 05 Jun 2024 22:29:54 GMT
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