Associate Veterinarian

Redmond Veterinary · United States

Description: DVM WANTED: Our priority is our patients, clients, and YOU

• Sign-on bonus eligible & exceptional benefits package
• Brand-new hospital opening in late Fall 2026
• Vibrant downtown Redmond community
• Experienced DVMs & new grads welcome

• Competitive base salary + commission $125,000 - $160,000 yearly base
• Sign-on bonus eligible
• Relocation expense reimbursement eligible
• Medical, vision & dental insurance
• Flexible schedule with no on-call
• PTO & Floater Days, including a Personal Celebration Day
• 401K with employer match
• License and professional organization dues (AVMA, State Medical Assoc, AAHA, VMB) + one additional professional membership of your choice
• Professional Liability insurance
• Paid CE time and annual CE stipend
• Team Member pet discount
• Uniform allowance
• Career growth opportunities
• Great culture with a supportive team

• Excellent communication skills
• Positive attitude
• An interest or specialty you can bring to the practice or would like to pursue
• A desire to build long-term relationships with pet parents & the community
• Excited about the opportunity to help build and shape a new hospital

• Vibrant, walkable downtown setting
• Local shops and restaurants nearby
• Easy access to Sound Transit light rail
• Convenient commute from Seattle, Bellevue, Kirkland, and surrounding Eastside communities
• Minutes from Redmond Town Center, the Sammamish River Trail, and Downtown Park
• Unique opportunity to join an opening team and help shape the hospital's culture and care standards from the very start

PATIENT MANAGEMENT:

• Put Pets First - creating recommendations with the patient's well-being as the first priority.
• Continually improve the quality of patient care through studying veterinary journals and textbooks and by attending continuing education seminars.
• Perform examinations, diagnostic tests, medical, surgical, and dental procedures in a way that will deliver the highest quality care while minimizing patient stress and discomfort. This will include care for both well pets and sick pets.
• Perform medically appropriate euthanasia with compassion and concern for the patient's comfort and the client's emotional status.
• Recommend referral to a specialist when this is likely to significantly improve the prognosis.

CLIENT MANAGEMENT:

• Will promote and participate in the Pillars and our Standards of Conduct and help ensure that the above is known and practiced by all team members.
• Develop rapport with clients through compassionate communication.
• Determine client's needs and wishes.
• Question the client to ascertain the patient's past medical and surgical history as well as a description of the current presenting signs.
• Explain physical examination findings.
• Recommend the appropriate preventive health care, including vaccines and appropriate nutritional products and protocols in accordance with hospital quality of care.
• Recommend and explain plans for diagnostic procedures and for medical and surgical therapies; methods for home care procedures and follow up plans. In both written and verbal form.
• Provide the client with the patients prognosis based on the pets clinical problems.
• Generate, or direct generation of fee estimates/treatment plan for recommended procedures and presents them to the client.
• Keep clients informed regarding the status of their pet and results of diagnostic tests.
• Provide telephone consultation, including follow-up calls for progress reports, etc. in accordance with your hospitals stated timelines.

ADMINISTRATIVE MANAGEMENT:

• Maintenance of client/patient medical/surgical records:
• Completely "SOAP" the patient's medical records in accordance with your hospitals standards/timelines:
• S = Subjective analysis of problem (history)
• O = Objective analysis of problem (symptoms)
• A = Assessment of problem (diagnosis)
• P = Plan of dealing with problem (treatment)
• Make certain all necessary logs are kept up to date through established protocols and guidelines:
• Surgical logs
• Narcotics logs
• Radiology logs
• Laboratory logs

• Accurately charge clients for all services performed. Participate in the planning, execution, and analysis of various methods of improving delivery of services to clients.
• Support and participate in marketing and promotional events and programs.
• Ready to report to work when the need arises.
• Contribute to maintenance of a comfortable, clean, and safe environment of which the clients, the team and the management can be proud. TEAM MANAGEMENT- PROFESSIONAL TEAM:

• Ensure an atmosphere of cooperation and mutual respect.
• Keep patient records complete and up to date to assist colleagues in follow-up and future management of the patient.
• Provide consultation when requested and assisting with diagnostic, treatment, and surgical procedures.
• Ensure that credit is accurately given for procedures performed by each veterinarian.
• Maintain communication with clients when their pet's primary veterinarian is not available.
• Assist DVM colleagues where necessary and foster an educational environment.
• Empathy and medical/surgical advice for colleagues when questions of clinical judgment arise.

TEAM MANAGEMENT- TECHNICIANS/ ASSISTANTS:

• Maintain an atmosphere of cooperation and mutual respect.
• Clearly prescribe detailed directions regarding drug doses, routes, times, and rates for administration, diagnostic medical, surgical, and dental procedures, and instructions for patient monitoring.
• Assist technicians where necessary and foster an educational environment.
• Provide instruction in client education, diagnostic and treatment procedures, and anesthesia, care of instruments, surgical assisting, and dentistry.

TEAM MANAGEMENT- RECEPTIONISTS:

• Maintain an atmosphere of cooperation and mutual respect.
• Expedite the generation of fee estimates/treatment plans for recommended procedures and the invoicing of client charges for outpatients and for patients to be discharged.
• Clearly record information, in a timely manner, regarding medications and supplies being dispensed.
• Assist receptionists in providing answers to client's questions using the appropriate tone and grammar for patient care and records.
• Provide education regarding basic pet health to assist them in advising clients when scheduling appointments for examinations and various procedures.

PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Honesty in dealing with clients and colleagues.
• Maintain an attitude and appearance that reflect favorably on the profession, hospital and company.
• Empathy for colleagues when questions of clinical judgment arise.
• Share information and concerns with other members of the profession, hospital and company by attending veterinary meetings regularly.
• Represent the hospital to the professional community and the general public as requested.
• Model an "owner" mentality in hospital by demonstrating willingness to assist all team members for the success of the hospital.

• Team Member should expect to spend nearly all of their workdays standing, sitting, and typing at a computer.
• They should have a physical strength and the ability to safely lift objects weighing up to 50 pounds without assistance.
• Able to assist in lifting patients weighing more than 50 pounds.
• Must possess sufficient strength and assertiveness to effectively restrain patients and ensure the safety of clients and personnel.
• Ability to be confident around pets (ex: dogs, cats, birds, reptiles, etc.)
• The noise level in the work environment is moderately high.
• Ability to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral or diagram form and to solve problems involving several variables.
• Requires ambulatory skills sufficient to perform duties while at hospital.
• Ability to stand, walk, stoop, kneel, crouch, and climb as well as manipulate (lift, carry, move) up to 50 pounds.
• Requires good hand-eye coordination, arm-hand-finger dexterity with the ability to reach and grasp, and visual acuity to use a keyboard, operate equipment and read information.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.
• Team is routinely exposed to pets that may bite or scratch, and on occasion, exposed to anesthesia, radiation, biological hazards, and medication/ controlled substances.

• A Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (DVM) degree, or equivalent, from an accredited university.
• State Veterinary Board License and must be in good standing for the state in which they intend to be hired, prior to their start date.