Health Consumer Center Staff Attorney

Key Responsibilities

• Learn and advocate for the diverse legal needs of undeserved and vulnerable communities in San Francisco and the broader Bay Area to reduce homelessness, enhance stability, and address social justice.
• Represent individuals in all stages of administrative hearings and plan grievance proceedings related to healthcare services and coverage, including negotiating with plans and providers for coverage of services and/or access to treatment.
• Answer calls during shifts on the health legal advice hotline to provide immediate access/ assistance and address client’s needs.
• Provide workshops and technical assistance to community partners and client community on health access issues and a broad range of civil legal issues.
• Engage with, build and foster broad public-private partnerships, including with governmental agencies, courts, community-based organizations, and pro bono partners to ensure integrated services, client outreach and address barriers facing BayLegal's client community.
• Identify and employ impact advocacy strategies to remove barriers to healthcare services and coverage for client populations, including particularly vulnerable groups such as people experiencing homelessness, people with disabilities, people suffering from chronic conditions, people who have limited English proficiency, older adults, children, low income people, and pregnant people.
• Engage in other tasks and projects that further the interest of fostering BayLegal's mission and operations as a non-profit.

Hybrid Work Option

BayLegal employees whose primary job duties are on a BayLegal hotline, including Health Consumer Center (HCC), are approved to work remotely on a full-time basis subject to the terms of the collective bargaining agreement with Bay Area Legal Aid Workers, “BALAW”, with expectation of being in-person at a BayLegal office or advocacy site as needed to accommodate client needs, attend periodic team meetings and trainings.

Employees must reside and perform all work in California and at a distance allowing them to commute to their physical BayLegal base location, and to other service delivery locations as needed, during the standard work week.

Compensation and Benefits

• We offer a family friendly environment, and compensation based on competitive public interest salaries along with a generous benefits package.
• BayLegal's benefits package includes 100% employer covered medical, dental, and life insurance for employees and up to 60% for dependents;
• BayLegal student debt reimbursement program;
• long term disability insurance;
• employee assistance program;
• wage differentials for multi-lingual employees whose non-English language skills are regularly used in the provision of tasks and pass a request test of fluency and/or proficiency;
• dependent childcare employer contribution program;
• employer paid CA Bar license and/or social work license fees;
• 401k retirement plan with BayLegal contribution following first year.

This is a union position (Bay Area Legal Aid Workers, “BALAW”), and the 2026 salary range is $80,719-$132,815 and placement depends on years of experience.

The salary scale can be found here: BayLegal union positions salary scale for 2022-2026.

Work Environment And Physical Activity

This position is primarily sedentary. When in office, the applicant can expect to be working at a desk in a temperature-controlled office, in a modular space or individual office. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.