Location
Austin, TX | United States
Job description
Who Are We?
Austin Animal Center‘s mission is to enhance the lives of pets and people by preventing animal homelessness, to help lost pets find their way home or find new homes, to provide education and resources to preserve the human-animal bond, and to administer animal-related ordinances to ensure public and animal safety, all while achieving a 95% live outcome rate for sheltered pets.
What’s the Job?
The veterinarian has a passion for our mission and is firmly committed to the philosophy of saving lives through positive outcomes: open adoption, fostering, behavior management, and enrichment for all sheltered animals. You are currently licensed as a Texas Veterinarian and have experience providing veterinary services.
This person will work with our team of veterinarians, technicians, support staff, and volunteers in providing the most effective medical care to our shelter animals by ensuring that they receive prompt and proper medical care with continued monitoring for individual health and welfare. They will participate in all aspects of healthcare for shelter animals, including evaluation, diagnosis, disease prevention, vaccinations, testing, treatments, spay/neuter, and surgeries.
We offer outstanding benefits with a healthy work/life balance, health care benefits such as low-cost medical, dental, vision, paid leave, a highly competitive retirement plan, training opportunities, and more.
Essential duties and functions, pursuant to the Americans with Disabilities Act, may include the following. Other related duties may be assigned.
- Prevents and controls animal diseases through examination of all domestic and wild animals involved in bites to humans for possible infection Performs duties as required under State of Texas Health and Safety code, including acting as Rabies Authority for Travis County, TX.
- Performs high volume, high quality spay/neuter surgeries for shelter animals.
- Responsible for compliance with all shelter policies and local, state and federal regulations.
- Accurately maintain all required records in the shelter’s database in a timely manner.
- Contribute to the programs and services that support the shelter’s live outcome goal.
Responsibilities- Supervision and/or Leadership Exercised:
- May provide leadership, work assignments, evaluation, training and guidance to others.
Must possess required knowledge, skills, abilities, and experience and be able to explain and demonstrate, with or without reasonable accommodations, that the essential functions of the job can be performed.
- Knowledge of current principles and practice of veterinary medicine.
- Skill in communicating effectively with the public.
- Knowledge of local, state and federal animal health laws and regulations.
- Skill in safely handling animals, including those with unknown temperament.
- Knowledge of animal services and related programs.
- Knowledge of animal care and husbandry of common breeds of dogs, cat’s livestock and other animals kept as domestic pets.
- Ability to work with frequent interruptions and changes in priorities.
- Ability to establish and maintain effective communication and working relationships with City employees and the public.
- Skill in handling conflict and uncertain situations.
- Skill in handling multiple tasks and prioritizing.
- Knowledge of supervisory and managerial techniques and principles.
- Knowledge of city practice, policy, and procedures.
- Skill in using computers and related software applications.
- Ability to train others.
- Adhere to disease management and safety protocols.
Preferred Experience:
- Experience practicing veterinary medicine in an animal shelter environment.
- Experience performing spay and neuter surgeries.
- Experience handling dogs and cats of various sizes and dispositions.
- Good standing with the DEA regarding controlled substances.
- Able to multitask in fast paced environment and have strong organizational skills.
- Ability to work rotating Sunday shifts as needed.
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Salary
$99k - $135k
