Are you looking for a rewarding career? Animal Welfare League Queensland (AWLQ) is currently looking for a Part-time or Casual Vet to join our Gold Coast Animal Rehoming Centre! If you’re passionate about making a direct impact on animal welfare, we’d love to talk to you.

How you’ll impact our mission

Enjoy making a difference to the thousands of stray and homeless animals that come through our doors each year.

AWLQ promises to never euthanize a healthy, sociable or treatable animal in our care, this means we treat a wide variety of conditions on top of routine surgeries and procedures. As a bonus you'll see animals that you care for adopted into new loving homes.

About the role

You will be joining a dedicated team focused on caring for animals to achieve positive outcomes through treatment, foster and adoption. This is a busy location with a large number of animals needing AWLQ’s help, but there is no weekend work for work/life balance!This role provides variety with both medicine and surgical cases, from standard to complex. As a shelter vet you will be able to focus on the patient with no human clients. We have a separate dog and cat clinic, with dental and digital x-ray, ultrasound, inhouse and external pathology.

Your new role offers you:

• Competitive pay rate
• No weekend work and very little after-hours
• Flexibility to work around your other clinic shifts
• Development of Animal behaviour & fear free handling
• On-going training and professional development

Key Responsibilities

• Surgical procedures
• Radiology, dental radiology, and ultrasound procedures
• Hospital rounds
• Health exams
• Medical investigation including diagnostics
• Foster animal consults and rechecks
• Updating patient records
• Knowledge, understanding and empathy for community animal health and welfare issues

What are the minimum requirements for this position?

• 2+ years’ veterinary experience
• Confident in standard procedures including cat and dog castrates and spays, dental procedures
• A strong interest in Shelter medicine

As the successful candidate you will have:

• Degree Qualification in Veterinary Science and Registration as a Veterinarian
• Enthusiasm to develop skills
• Ability to monitor and manage medical cases
• Commitment to embracing a positive team environment
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to work well with other departments
• Kindness and compassion for the animals in our care

Who are we?

Founded in 1959, AWLQ has become a trusted leader in animal welfare. We provide a safe haven and second chance for close to 10,000 stray and homeless animals every year. To each one of these animals we welcome through our doors, a promise is made – to never euthanise a healthy, sociable, or treatable animal in our care. We work tirelessly every day to maintain this promise.

In addition to our shelter work, we are committed to keeping pets and people together by providing lifesaving support and resources to people in need with companion animals. We are known for our grassroots and innovative community-based animal welfare work including our community vet clinics, Getting to Zero, Golden Hearts Seniors’ Support Program and the National Desexing Network.

Why should you join us?

At AWLQ we offer competitive pay and benefits, including access to an independent Employee Assistance Program, retail discounts, vet discounts. Most importantly, every day you’ll play an instrumental role in our lifesaving work.

Our mission is to unleash the potential in every team, and we know that teams perform best when they have passion. We are committed to building a culture where everyone has the opportunity to do meaningful work and is recognised for their efforts.

Equity

Diversity and inclusion are the principles guiding how we build our teams, cultivate our leaders and build a culture of belonging where differences are valued.

Join us and make a difference!

Are you looking for a rewarding career? We value our people and the skills, experience, passion, and engagement they bring to the Willawong Rehoming Centre. If you’re passionate about making a direct impact on animal welfare, we’d love to talk to you.