Attorney-Regional

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The mission of the Louisiana Department of Health is to protect and promote health and to ensure access to medical, preventive, and rehabilitative services for all residents of the State of Louisiana.

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Join the Louisiana Department of Health as a senior legal advisor, where you'll provide strategic legal counsel on complex healthcare matters impacting state psychiatric hospitals, behavioral health services, public health, developmental disabilities programs, and adult protective services. In this influential role, you'll collaborate with executive leadership, shape critical legal decisions, and help protect and advance healthcare services that make a meaningful difference for communities across Louisiana.

Incumbent must possess broad and intensive legal experience in all phases of the legal process regarding health law.

Possession of a current Louisiana license to practice law plus four years of experience as a practicing attorney. The official job specifications for this role, as defined by the State Civil Service, can be found here.

Job Duties:

• Incumbent serves as a senior legal counsel for one of the nine LDH regions throughout the state of Louisiana, with specific emphasis on the 24-hour state psychiatric hospitals, group homes, and forensic supervised transitional residential aftercare (FSTRA) facilities on the Eastern Louisiana Mental Health System (ELM HS) campus at Jackson, Louisiana in LDH Region 2.

• Incumbent performs highly professional and administrative duties and is responsible for providing highly technical legal direction, advice, assistance, consultation, representation. Incumbent has a direct influence on the operation of LDH regional activities involving several major programs under LDH, including Office of Public Health (OPH), Office of Behavioral Health (OBH), Office for Citizens with Developmental Disabilities (OCDD), and Adult Protective Services (APS), as well as on the LDH facilities (including contracted facilities) located on the ELMHS campus at Jackson, Louisiana in LDH Region 2.

• This position provides highly technical legal advice, assistance, and consultation to the Executive Counsel, General Counsel, and Deputy General Counsels, on high profile and complex legal matters.

Position-Specific Details:

Location: Office of the Secretary / Legal / East Felicia Parish

Appointment Type: This position may be filled as a Probationary appointment, Promotional appointment, or Job appointment (temporary appointment that may last up to 48 months)

Cost Center: 3071070203

Position Number(s): 50557072

Compensation: This position is eligible for the following Special Entrance Rates (SER): Attorney-Regional - $41.80 hourly / $3,344.00 bi-weekly

How To Apply

No Civil Service test score is required in order to be considered for this vacancy.

To apply for this vacancy, click on the “Apply” link above and complete an electronic application, which can be used for this vacancy as well as future job opportunities. Applicants are responsible for checking the status of their application to determine where they are in the recruitment process. Further status message information is located under the Information section of the Current Job Opportunities page.

* Information to support your eligibility for the position must be included in the application (i.e., relevant, detailed experience/education). Resumes will not be accepted in lieu of completed education and experience sections. Applications may be rejected if incomplete.

For information on how to check your application status and understand status updates, please click HERE.

Contact Information:

Casey Hickman

[email protected]

LA Department of Health (LDH)

Division of Human Resources

PO Box 4818

Baton Rouge, LA 70821 225-342-6477

This organization participates in E-verify, and for more information on E-verify, please contact DHS at 1-888-464-4218.

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LDH is an equal opportunity employer and seeks to recruit a highly productive and diverse workforce and will provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and prospective employees. Employment decisions shall be based strictly on merit and without regard to religious or political beliefs, sex, race, or any other non-merit factor.