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About the Role
The Veterinary Internship offers one year of hands-on experience under the mentorship of Associate Veterinarians, focusing on challenging medical cases and various surgeries. Interns will work with technicians and support staff to provide effective medical care to rescue animals, receiving training in life-saving techniques with an emphasis on cost-effective and efficient treatment to maximize lives saved.
Responsibilities
- Work under the mentorship of multiple Associate Veterinarians.
- Gain hands-on experience in challenging medical cases and various types of surgeries.
- Perform routine high quality/high volume spay/neuter, routine soft tissue surgeries, emergency surgeries, and onsite orthopedic surgery.
- Work closely with technicians and support staff/volunteers in providing effective medical care to rescue animals.
- Receive training in veterinary life-saving techniques on the basis of low-cost treatment and quick yet efficient exams.
- Research cases and present cases weekly during weekly round sessions.
Requirements
- License to practice veterinary medicine in Texas.
- High interest in learning how to save as many lives as possible.
- Comfortable with triage, using systems and protocols, and a high volume medical caseload.
- Excited by the challenge of making decisions based on physical examination/carefully chosen diagnostics/history without the full resources of a lab/referral hospital.
- Must embody APA!'s core values of innovation, respect, drive, resourcefulness, and inclusion.
- Commitment to APA!'s customer experience expectations.
- Willing and committed to working well with volunteers and staff in all roles.
Location
- Austin, TX
Work Type
- Full-time
- One year contract
Experience Level
- Internship
Salary/Compensations
- $80,000
Benefits
- Up to 95% subsidy on employer-sponsored medical coverage
- Subsidized and voluntary life insurance
- Voluntary dental, vision and short term disability options
- Voluntary wellness and emergency sick plans
- Up to 2% match on 401(K) retirement plan
- Supplemental benefits
- Subsidized pet insurance
- Flexible spending accounts
- Additional life coverage
- 10 paid holidays
- 10 days paid time off during the first year of employment
- Additional 5 days of PTO accrual upon completion of 12 months of employment
- Professional development opportunities
About the Company
- Austin Pets Alive! (APA!) is one of Austin’s most dynamic and best-loved nonprofits, leading the no-kill movement nationally and considered a national thought leader in animal welfare.
- APA! locally rescues, treats, and adopts out 10,000 homeless dogs and cats each year, providing the safety net for Austin’s most at-risk shelter pets.
- The organization continues to innovate best practices to save lives and teaches its renowned lifesaving model through American Pets Alive!, APA!’s national division.
- In 2020, AmPA! began the Human Animal Support Services (HASS) project, a collaborative movement of more than 10,000 animal welfare professionals working in nearly 1,900 organizations.
- HASS is the first-of-its-kind collective of shelters and animal welfare professionals coming together to build community-focused animal services that better meet the needs of people and pets by keeping human-animal families together and keeping pets unnecessarily out of shelters.
Equal Opportunity
- Austin Pets Alive! is an equal employment opportunity employer and values having staff who come from communities that are most impacted by the issues we engage on.
- We especially encourage people of color, LGBTQ people, women, transgender and gender non-conforming people, and people with disabilities to apply.
- Austin Pets Alive! does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
- Austin Pets Alive! is committed to creating a dynamic work environment that values diversity and inclusion, respect and integrity, community focus, and innovation.