On-Site Veterinarian

Position Description

Organization:
Always & Furever Midwest Animal Sanctuary, in partnership with St. Francis Outreach

Reports to:

Medical Director (works closely with executive leadership)

Locations:
Osawatomie, KS (mobile clinic)
· Spring Hill, KS (mobile clinic)
· Kansas City, MO (new brick-and-mortar campus, opening 2027)

Schedule:

Full-time, 40 hours/week

Licensure:
Active veterinary license in both Missouri and Kansas; DEA-eligible

Always & Furever Midwest Animal Sanctuary is a mission-driven nonprofit that provides lifesaving care to the animals who need it most, caring for approximately 300 animals a day across our sanctuary and foster network while supporting rescue partners throughout the Kansas City region. Our medical work extends beyond our own animals through two signature initiatives the On-Site Veterinarian will help deliver:

The VRC is an invitation-only, mission-aligned partnership that gives smaller rescues guaranteed, affordable access to the same high-quality surgical and medical care our own animals receive — so no animal waits weeks for a surgery it needs now. Partners reserve monthly veterinary capacity through flat retainers rather than per-procedure pricing, with medications and labs billed at direct cost and no profit motive.

Delivered through Always & Furever (Missouri) and St. Francis Outreach, LLC (Kansas), the VRC handles the cases that leave most rescues stranded on emergency-clinic waitlists: pyometra spays, mass and tumor removals, foreign-body surgeries, amputations, complex dentals, and high-volume spay/neuter days.

Community Care is a neighbor-helping-neighbor fund that helps families keep the pets they love when a veterinary bill is more than they can manage. Funded entirely by donors and local business sponsors — never by taxpayer dollars — residents apply, a fair monthly drawing selects recipients, and care is delivered by our own veterinary team through the mobile clinic, partner clinic days, and our facilities.

First launched as the Osawatomie Community Care Fund (OCC), the program is expanding across the communities we serve. Community Care delivers the full standard of veterinary medicine — proper anesthesia, monitoring, diagnostics, and follow-up — covering wellness exams, vaccines, spay/neuter, dental, and common medical concerns.

Where you fit in

The On-Site Veterinarian is central to both program: providing the surgical and medical care that makes VRC partnerships possible and Community Care appointments a reality, all while maintaining the highest standard of care for the sanctuary’s own population of dogs and cats.

The Always & Furever On-Site Lead Veterinarian will deliver high-quality medical care to all shelter animals — including, but not limited to, spay/neuter and the treatment of a wide range of medical conditions — and will extend that same standard of care to the animals and families served through the Veterinary Rescue Collaboration and Community Care programs across our Osawatomie and Spring Hill, Kansas locations and our 2027 Kansas City, Missouri campus.

Responsibilities will include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Provide high-quality, practical veterinary care to a wide range of patients — sanctuary animals, VRC partner animals, and Community Care patients alike.
• Perform routine spay/neuter surgeries and, depending on experience and interest, advanced soft tissue and orthopedic procedures.
• Provide high-quality, individualized preventative care while maintaining overall population health using best practices.

• Develop treatment plans in accordance with…