Medical Director, Queens Veterinary Services
About The Position
The Medical Director provides medical leadership and oversight for the shelter’s veterinary program, ensuring that all animals receive timely, humane, evidence-based medical care while supporting the department’s mission to protect animal health and welfare. With guidance from the Director of Shelter Medicine, the Medical Director will implement and uphold medical standards, protocols, and systems that promote high-quality individual patient care and effective population health management within an open-admission shelter environment. Working collaboratively with shelter leadership, veterinary staff, animal care personnel, behavior and placement teams, animal rescue, foster programs, and external veterinary partners, the Medical Director oversees the delivery of veterinary services and serves as the shelter’s primary medical resource for complex clinical and population-health decisions. Leading with heart and empathy your approach must be one of collaboration and team building. We foster and nurture and create a safe space for people to speak, learn, make mistakes, and grow. At ACC we treat our colleagues with the same compassion as we do our animals. Therefore, a successful candidate inspires the team to want to come to work every day and shows them how they make a difference in the lives of every animal that enters through our doors. With a team of 5 veterinarians, you endeavor, through your actions, to motivate, collaborate, initiate, stimulate, communicate, appreciate, and sometimes commiserate with your team and colleagues. The position requires strong clinical judgment, leadership skills, knowledge of shelter medicine, and the ability to balance individual animal needs with the health and welfare of the overall shelter population.
Requirements
- NYS Licensed DVM, or license eligible with 5 years of shelter medicine practice.
- Demonstrated competency in managing high performing veterinary teams.
- Must be able to lift at least 50 lbs.
Nice To Haves
- Advanced surgical skills a plus.
Responsibilities
- Direct supervision of shelter veterinarians, to include scheduling, payroll, feedback and corrective actions.
- Provide clinical leadership, mentoring, and ongoing professional development to team veterinarians.
- Participate in recruitment and onboarding.
- Provide guidance and escalation support for complex medical, surgical, behavioral, and quality-of-life cases.
- Promote consistency in clinical decision-making and adherence to ACC medical standards and protocols.
- Monitor medical conditions, infectious disease, population health and emerging health concerns.
- Lead shelter response to infectious disease outbreaks.
- Ensure efficient and proficient surgical processes.
- Provide guidance in end of life, quality of life decision making.
- Participate and/or lead shelter medical rounds.
- Participate in group euthanasia decision making.
- Collaborate with other departments and cultivate positive working relationships.
- Clinical work required.
- Fear Free certification within 30 days of hire.
- Complete other duties as assigned by supervisor.
Benefits
- Generous paid-time-off (PTO) package that includes vacation time, birthdays off, 40 hours of paid CE time with a small stipend, personal days and sick pay.
- Open access Cigna medical, dental and vision insurance at a low premium to our employees.
- 401K and Pension
- Life Insurance.
- On-the-job training for 2-4 weeks.
- Periodic all staff training to include safety, DEI, cross training, and other growth opportunities.
- Employees may be eligible for loan forgiveness, cancellation, and/or consolidation under the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program (PSLF).
- No contract or non-compete clause.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
Education Level
No Education Listed
