Full/Part-time position: Associate Veterinarian (DVM). New grads welcome to apply! Join our team of board certified and board eligible surgeons (DACVS) and experienced medicine clinicians at Delaney Veterinary Services! We are the largest primary and referral practice for Northern Alberta, located in Sherwood Park, Canada.
About the Arena: Sherwood Park is a peaceful community just outside Edmonton, located 3-4 hours from world renowned Banff and Jasper National Parks and 1 hour from lakes ideal for fishing and boating. Our community offers country living with a low population density, scenic surroundings ideal for hiking, camping, hunting, and winter sports such as cross-country skiing as well as Northern lights watching! Known as Festival City, Edmonton and surrounding areas offer summer music, arts and food festivals as well as weekly national and local horse events including jumping, rodeo, barrel racing, roping, and multi- breed horse shows within 2 hours. Adding to this, a new multipurpose agricultural facility is currently being built 20 minutes from our hospital. Edmonton is the home of professional sports teams including the Oilers (NHL) and the Elks (CFL). Enjoy the space and freedom of country living with convenient access to the amenities and opportunities of this growing city!
About the Position: The ideal candidate should be comfortable doing dental procedures, basic lameness workups, emergencies, reproduction ultrasonography, and medical exams. Our focus at DVS is the patient. We have a wide variety of equine patients including top racehorses, prize winning western performance horses, competitive English sport horses, ranch horses, pleasure/trail horses and backyard companions.
We offer a flexible work week schedule from full time or part time (working 2-5 days a week) and a shared-on call schedule, competitive based salary with a bonus structure and after-hours compensation, signing bonus, relocation assistance, health and dental benefits, CE and clothing stipend, CVMA and ABVMA dues paid, professional liability insurance and clinic vehicle provided for all farm calls. As part of our team, you will receive discounts on professional services and products as well as housing for your own horse at a reduced cost!
Our facility: is equipped with a state-of-the-art surgical suite with two recovery rooms, intensive care barn, consultation rooms with stocks prepared for regular and specialty standing procedures, a 3-meter and 1.5-meter endoscopy, dynamic endoscopy, dental endoscopy, recently upgraded portable digital radiography and ultrasonography, lameness locator, and extracorporeal shockwave. A Sports Medicine and Lameness Center is currently under construction to be completed in 2024!
At Delaney Veterinary Services we strive to provide a healthy working environment with plenty of support staff (1.75 support staff per veterinarian), as well as mentorship and consulting immediately available within our different specialties. Working as a team is essential to us and practice partnership is available for the right person. We are proud to have highly trained support staff and select life-long clientele.
Applicants must be in completion of good standing of DVM or VMD degree from an accredited university (or completed NEB accreditation for non-accredited universities) and eligible for licensure in the province of Alberta.