Redfern Legal Centre – Financial Abuse Service – Supervising Solicitor
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- Sydney based
- 12-month parental leave contract, full time or part time
- $142, 325.78 – $145,186.80 (pro rata for part time), depending on qualifications and
experience.
- Supervised by the Managing Solicitor of the Financial Abuse Service
1. Redfern Legal Centre
Redfern Legal Centre is a non-profit community legal centre that promotes social justice and
creates change. We provide free legal advice, legal services and education to people experiencing disadvantage in New South Wales. We drive innovation and change through policy and law reform work to address inequalities in the legal system, policies and social practices that cause disadvantage.
We provide effective and integrated free legal services that are client focussed,
collaborative, non-discriminatory and responsive to changing community needs – to
our local community as well as state-wide. Our specialist legal services focus on tenancy, credit, debt and consumer law, financial abuse, employment law, international students, First
Nations justice, police accountability, and provide outreach services including through our health justice partnership.
2. Position Overview
Redfern Legal Centre’s Financial Abuse Service (FAS) is a statewide service that provides trauma informed legal, social work and financial counselling assistance to victim survivors who have experienced financial abuse from an intimate partner. The integrated service comprises of credit and debt law solicitors, a financial counsellor, family law solicitors, a company and tax law solicitor, social workers and a collaboration with another CLC for immigration law services. This specialist, cross-jurisdictional, and integrated approach provides holistic support to our clients, increasing their safety and wellbeing and leading to financial independence and empowerment.
FAS also coordinates the Economic Abuse Reference Group (EARG), a network of Australian community organisations which influences government and industry responses to the financial impact of domestic and family violence. Our members include domestic and family violence services, community legal services and financial counselling services.
The Supervising Solicitor manages the integrated practice of the Financial Abuse Service and provides line management, advice and casework supervision for four direct reports, and three indirect reports. This role works closely with the Managing Solicitor, Policy and Advocacy Lead and Community Engagement Worker to contribute to law reform priorities, community legal education, intake and integrated practice policies and procedures.
3. Position Responsibilities
- Manage the FAS integrated practice to ensure the delivery of high quality and trauma informed legal, social work and financial counselling services;
- Work with the Principal Solicitor and Managing
Solicitor to develop and oversee client management systems, risk assessment processes, conflict checks and data collection;
- Facilitate collaboration between the different FAS professionals to provide a holistic, interdisciplinary service to victim survivors of financial abuse;
- Supervise solicitors, financial counsellors, social workers and the legal support officer;
- With the FAS Managing Lawyer, set the strategic priorities of the integrated practice,
and identify and approve appropriate cases for representation in accordance
with those priorities and available resources;
- Work with FAS policy staff to identify systemic policy and law reform issues arising in the legal practice, provide expertise on policy and law reform submissions, and engage with stakeholders (including government, industry and the community sector) to build capacity to identify, prevent and respond to financial abuse;
- Develop and maintain relationships with pro bono partners;
- Coordinate the design and delivery of community legal education, legal publications and resources to increase capacity in the community sector to identify financial abuse and make
appropriate referrals;
- Contribute to Redfern Legal Centre through attendance at staff meetings, contribution to board and funding reports, assistance with intake including intake supervision shifts, and contribution to the effective implementation of our Reconciliation Action Plan.
4. Knowledge, skills and experience
Essential
- Eligible for an unrestricted NSW practising certificate with a minimum of 5 years’ post qualification experience;
- Experience working in a multidisciplinary service;
- Experience in providing legal services to people who have experienced family and domestic violence;
- Understanding of legal practice management requirements and ability to develop systems and processes to support this;
- Demonstrated ability to lead and manage others;
- Demonstrated ability to maintain stakeholder relationships and coordinate pro bono resources;
- Advanced written and verbal communication skills, including high attention to detail;
- Demonstrated commitment to social justice.
Desirable
- Expertise in credit, debt and consumer law, family law property matters, immigration law and/or company law and tax law, with the ability to advise on and conduct complex cases in a trauma-informed manner;
- Experience designing and delivering community legal education and contributing to law reform and policy work;
- Experience in delivering services to First Nations and culturally and linguistically diverse communities.
5. Conditions
Salary and benefits: $142, 325.78 – $145,186.80 (pro rata for part time) depending on qualifications and experience.
Superannuation and annual leave loading are paid in addition.
As a Public Benevolent Institution, Redfern Legal Centre can offer staff generous salary packaging options. The tax savings for a staff member choosing to take full advantage of the salary packaging option mean that their take home salary may be increased by up to $6,000 per annum.
Redfern Legal Centre is a diverse, culturally safe and inclusive workplace that offers flexible conditions and supports wellbeing. Our enterprise agreement offers a 35-hour working week, time in lieu options and a paid end of year closure of two weeks (including public holidays) on top of four weeks annual leave.
We prioritise staff wellbeing through external debrief supervision, a generous training and professional development budget and flexible working conditions.
6. Applications
Redfern Legal Centre welcomes applications from First Nations people, people from diverse cultural backgrounds and people with disabilities.
Your application should be no more than six pages long, and must
include:
- a cover letter,
- your resume; and
- must include a statement addressing the Knowledge Skills and Experience criteria in the position description.
Only applications that include a cover letter, resume and responses to the selection criteria will be considered.
Please submit your application via Employment Hero.
Enquiries should be directed to Catherine Hewett at catherine@rlc.org.au.
Applications close: 9am on Tuesday 7 April 2026
