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Relief Emergency Veterinarian

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League City, TX
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League City, TX
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Provide emergency veterinary care for pets at a 24-hour animal hospital, including overnight, weekend, and holiday shifts. Apply strong medical judgment, empathy, confidence, and humility while treating critical patients. The role offers professional development, continuing education, clinical study participation, benefits, and opportunities to support shelters and charitable initiatives.
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Do you want to make a difference to the pets that need it most?

We are seeking an experienced Emergency Veterinarian as relief to join our team at VCA Animal Emergency Hospital Southeast Calder Road. We are a nights, weekends and holidays facility open M-TH overnight from 6pm to 8am and 24hours on weekends and holidays.

We are an AAHA accredited hospital with an ecellent team that has been in the Bay Area for over 20 years!

In this position you'll use your superior medical judgment combined with a high level of empathy, confidence and humility to save pets’ lives.
As a member of the VCA family, your passion for medicine and compassion for pets and people is matched with a commitment to your professional growth. Among the reasons to consider joining VCA are:
• Network of 4,500+ doctors, including more than 600 Specialists.
• Largest provider of Private Practice Internships and Residencies in the U.S.
• WOOF University, offering abundant CE for Doctors and Staff.
• Robust Clinical Studies program.
• Opportunities to give back through strong Shelter partnerships and VCA Charities.

 

If you are a current associate, you need to apply through our internal career site. Please log into Workday and click on the Jobs Hub app or search for Browse Jobs.

Benefits: We offer competitive compensation along with a comprehensive benefits package, including medical, dental, vision and paid vacation/sick days, 401(k), generous employee pet discounts and more!

The information in this position description indicates the general nature and level of work to be performed. It is not designed to be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of associates assigned to this job. Management reserves the right to revise the job description or require that other tasks be performed when the circumstances of the job change (for example, emergencies, change in personnel, workload, or technical development).

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer - Veterans / Disabled. For a complete EEO statement please see our career page at vcacareers.com.

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