Veterinarian Animal Shelter

About Us:

AdNet/Account Net, Inc. is an 8(a), WOSB, LGBTE and WBE owned management consulting firm founded in 1990. We blend the best in people with the ongoing demands of the workplace by providing high quality staffing and executive search services.

Position Description:

Make a profound difference in Nashville's animal welfare landscape through innovative shelter medicine. Be part of something bigger - where your veterinary expertise transforms lives, drives positive change, and shapes community-wide initiatives. This is shelter medicine where your skills create lasting impact. Ready to combine clinical excellence with community impact?

As a veterinary professional, you already understand the core responsibilities of clinical practice. What makes this shelter veterinarian role uniquely rewarding is the opportunity to combine your medical expertise with broad community impact. Here are the key areas where you'll make a difference:

• Lead High-Impact Medicine: Direct a comprehensive shelter health program, performing both high-volume spay/neuter surgeries and complex medical procedures. You'll handle everything from preventive care to emergency surgery, making real-time decisions that save lives.
• Drive Program Innovation: Shape and implement protocols that affect thousands of animals annually. You'll develop medical guidelines, train staff, and collaborate with local universities to advance shelter medicine practices.
• Champion Animal Welfare: Combine your veterinary expertise with forensic work in animal cruelty cases, providing expert testimony that brings justice to animal victims. Your medical assessments will directly influence animal protection in our community.
• Guide a Medical Team: Provide leadership and mentorship to veterinary technicians and shelter staff, fostering a culture of compassionate care while maintaining high medical standards.
• Build Community Solutions: Work beyond the shelter walls by participating in public health initiatives, managing community clinic programs, and developing partnerships that expand access to veterinary care across the County.

Required Skills:

• Excellent written and oral communication
• Critical thinking
• Analytical skills to diagnose and treat animals
• Scientific aptitude
• Problem solving

Typical Duties:

• Plans and implements a comprehensive animal health care program including population management, environmental sanitation, record-keeping, disease surveillance, physical examinations, vaccination, parasite control, disease testing, disease treatment, surgery, nutrition, outbreak response, and environmental enrichment for animals in the shelter and in foster homes, consistent with state, local policies, procedures, and guidelines.
• Educates staff and volunteers regarding animal disease and behavior.
• Ensures that each animal receives a physical examination upon intake, and that sick and injured animals are diagnosed, and treatment is prescribed.
• Assesses and advises as to treatment options for sick or injured animals, including risks and costs thereof.
• Performs high-quality, high-volume spay/neuter surgeries and additional surgeries as necessary, including but not limited to enucleations, exploratory, wound repair, tumor removal with biopsy, dentals, amputations, etc.
• Provides emergency medical care as needed, including but not limited to IV catheter placement, emergency surgery, transfusions, etc.
• Monitors the health of animals in the shelter (in collaboration with the shelter staff), performs diagnostic procedures, and provides appropriate and timely treatment when necessary.
• Provides leadership, direction, guidance and training for veterinary technicians, veterinary assistants, and other shelter staff, including training and oversight in sedation and euthanasia.
• Develops written protocols for the shelter’s veterinary clinic, including diagnostic and treatment plans and animal disposition guidelines.
• Promotes a caring attitude toward all animals and treats animals humanely and with compassion at all times, regardless of circumstances, including those that are sick, injured, feral, or aggressive.

• Advises and works with shelter staff in behavior assessment, behavioral counseling and…