Medical Legal Partnership Fellow

• Managing Boston Children's Hospital's Medical-Legal Partnership; which provides access to justice in the areas of housing, family law, education, benefits, and immigration for a 2-3 year appointment.
• Engaging in strategic outreach with local law firms and local legal services organizations.
• Coordinating with clinical teams, stakeholders, and outside counsel regarding time-sensitive guardianship matters.
• Partnering with all members of the patient care team to identify and resolve legal issues which could have negative impact on the patient's health and/or delivery of effective healthcare and treatment to patients and families.
• Conducting initial assessment of legal matters referred to the Office of General Counsel.
• Directly identifying matters that can be resolved in a short time frame.
• Coordinating the hand-off of more substantive and complex matters to legal service providers and law firm partners.
• Tracking all cases and maintaining databases relating to legal services provided on-site and referred out, and updating databases to track case outcomes.
• Providing support to the Office of General Counsel regarding patient care matters, including participating in team coverage rotation for off-hour patient care emergency matters after an initial six-month training period.
• Providing education and training to clinicians in substantive legal topics that impact effective delivery of health care services and treatment.
• Organizing Medical Legal Partnership Advisory Committee meetings and presentations.
• Performing other legal duties as required.

• Juris Doctorate's Degree required

• Must have demonstrated affinity and set of experiences in the area of child advocacy.
• The analytical skills to resolve highly complex problems requiring the application of scientific or technical principles, theories and concepts and in depth, experienced based cross functional knowledge.
• Advanced interpersonal/communication skills to represent the hospital in legal proceedings
• The ability to negotiate in extremely important and sensitive situations, persuade members of the Executive Management Group on issues and programs that impact assigned department
• Will represent the Hospital to external parties, or perform other duties requiring a high level of communication skills

• Current licensure by the Massachusetts Bar Association as a lawyer is required

The posted pay range is Boston Children's reasonable and good-faith expectation for this pay at the time of posting.

Any base pay offer provided depends on skills, experience, education, certifications, and a variety of other job-related factors. Base pay is one part of a comprehensive benefits package that includes flexible schedules, affordable health, vision and dental insurance, child care and student loan subsidies, generous levels of time off, 403(b) Retirement Savings plan, Pension, Tuition and certain License and Certification Reimbursement, cell phone plan discounts and discounted rates on T-passes. Experience the benefits of passion and teamwork.