Careers at Avant
Our people are at the centre of everything we do for our members.
We support over 90,000* healthcare professionals and students with a range of products and services, including medical defence and indemnity insurance. Our products are designed to protect our members both professionally and personally, to safeguard their career and reputation and protect them and their families.
Our mutual structure, heritage and ethos ensure that our members are at the centre of everything we do.
Avant operates nationally with offices in New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, Tasmania, South Australia, ACT and Western Australia.
*As at June 2024
Our benefits
As an insurer of health professionals, we are able to offer our people some free and subsidised insurance products. These, and more benefits in family, career, workplace, wellbeing and financial, are available.
Our values
Find out more about the shared values which underpin everything we do. Our values drive our people to go further for members and come together in different ways.
Our history
Discover the rich and interesting history of medical indemnity insurance in Australia, along with Avant's proud place within it. This publication celebrates an industry which dates back to 1893.
Protect your career with Australia’s most chosen medical indemnity provider. You will be backed by the largest medical indemnity team, including our law firm that’s dedicated to serving members.
The only health fund made for doctors, the medical community, and their families. Our focus is on delivering exceptional service and excellent gap cover, benefitting both members and practitioners.
Specialising in finance for doctors and healthcare practices. We have an extensive selection of loan options that no one lender can match, including our own suite of lending products.
Boost your medical practice's efficiency with our support, technology, and expert advice. We provide solutions to enable growth, such as medical billing, AI transcription, PracticeHub, and offsite administration services.
Avant Law focus on providing high-quality legal advice to doctors and medical practices. Our expert lawyers can assist you with a wide range of your personal and business legal matters.
We make finding the right income protection or life cover simpler. Our selection tool puts a curated list of providers at your fingertips, or you can speak with an Avant personal insurance adviser.
Hear from our people
Listen to what our people say about working at Avant by watching one of these videos. Hear from the Avant employees who interact with Avant’s members: our legal experts, passionate health professionals, dedicated sales and member service teams, and our highly-skilled IT and finance people – as they share why they work at Avant.
A great place to work
“Because of our diversification strategy, we have a lot of opportunities for people to grow their own careers.”
- Natasha Fenech, Group CEO and Managing Director
“Working with different teams provides opportunities to work on a fair number of different projects.”
– Manish Paida, Actuarial Graduate
Avant's values
“Avant’s purpose is really to provide confidence to doctors to keep serving the community.”
– Natasha Fenech, Group CEO and Managing Director
“Everyone really understanding why they’re here and having the same common purpose, really makes it a collegiate environment.”
– Pat Esplin, CEO Avant Law
Flexibility at Avant
“We know sometimes to create very innovative ideas you need quiet time and so we allow people to work from home.”
– Natasha Fenech, Group CEO and Managing Director
“I can pick which days I come in and I have time if I need to attend any school events.”
- Helen Chang, Finance Business Partner
Diversity – Workplace Gender Equality Agency
Avant lodged our annual report with the Workplace Gender Equality Agency. The report consists of the following sections:
- Questionnaire 2024
- Workforce Management Statistics 2024
- Workplace Profile 2024
- Gender Pay Gap Employer Statement 2024
You may make comments by emailing us, or contacting the Agency directly. Please refer to the Agency’s guidelines on this process for more information.