Job o’ the Day: Medical-Legal Partnership Attorney with the Northwest Justice Project in Seattle
Grab your flannel shirts! The Northwest Justice Project, a public interest law firm in Seattle, Washington, is hiring a 2-year staff attorney:
The Northwest Justice Project (NJP) is a not-for-profit law firm whose mission is to secure justice through high quality legal advocacy that promotes the long-term well-being of low-income individuals, families and communities through legal representation, community partnerships, education and other advocacy. NJP seeks applications from qualified attorneys to work within our Medical-Legal Partnership (MLP) project to address the legal needs of low-income families with children affected by the impacts of diabetes. This is a two year grant based position.
JOB DUTIES: The attorney will undertake a range of duties including, but not limited to:
- Conduct outreach and provide training to health care providers and client families on a broad range of legal issues, including identification of legal needs.
- Work collaboratively with health care providers to identify the most important problems that impact families affected by unmanaged diabetes;
- Engage with the low-income patient communities to devise and seek systemic solutions to health care access, education, housing, kinship care and other legal needs presented by the target client population;
- Develop collaborative working relationships with a network of advocates addressing similar and related issues through advocacy task forces or work groups to address systemic issues that arise for diabetes affected families and communities;
- Produce legal brochures and materials to assist target families to address day-to-day legal needs;
- Utilize NJP’s case management and timekeeping systems and comply with all applicable regulatory requirements and reporting needs;
- Support the work of NJP partners including the volunteer lawyers, private attorneys, other legal aid providers and interested parties and organizations addressing the legal needs of low-income persons on matters related to the health care needs of children with diabetes;
- Participate in meetings with MLP partners and advisory committee, and prepare reports of activities as needed to meet grant reporting requirements.
The application deadline is March 15, 2013, so apply now! Successful applicants will have experience with community based outreach and advocacy and will have worked with low-income communities in the past. For more information, view the full job listing at PSJD.org (log-in required).