Veterinarian - Full Time & Part Time

Ready Vet Go - Pet Ambulance & Mobile Urgent Vet Care; Melbourne; On-site; AUD 130,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

No overnight shifts

CPD opportunities

Education resources

Ambulance experience

Job summary

Ready Vet Go delivers veterinary ambulance and mobile urgent-care services across Melbourne, providing emergency medicine in the community. You’ll work in a Vet + Nurse two-person team, assessing and treating pets at home, stabilising patients and transporting them to hospital when needed.

You’ll start from our brand-new headquarters in Huntingdale, VIC, and travel across Greater Melbourne and beyond. The role offers both full-time and part-time opportunities with no overnight shifts, and a

Qualifications

• Qualified veterinarian with current registration in Victoria (or eligible)
• Experience in emergency/urgent care is preferred
• Ability to work in home settings and on road
• Strong communication with pet owners and referring teams

Responsibilities

• Urgent and emergency consultations in a patient’s home
• Assessment, treatment and stabilisation before hospital referral
• Home-to-hospital veterinary ambulance transport
• Inter-hospital transfers with ongoing monitoring
• Palliative care and home euthanasia
• Longer-distance transports across Greater Melbourne and occasionally regional Victoria
• Communication with pet owners, referring vets, emergency hospitals and specialist teams

Skills

Emergency medicine

Clinical judgment

Communication

Teamwork

Documentation

Independence

Driving

Education

Veterinary degree

Job description

Ready Vet Go | Melbourne

Remuneration : $130,000 – $165,000 + superannuation (full-time equivalent), commensurate with skills and experience.

Use your emergency skills differently: in homes, on the road and in cooperation with Melbourne’s veterinary clinics & hospitals.

If you enjoy urgent and emergency veterinary medicine but want to experience itoutside the walls of a clinic or hospital, Ready Vet Go offers a role like no other.

Ready Vet Go is Melbourne’s veterinary ambulance and mobile urgent-care service, providing veterinary care in the community and helping connect unwell pets with the hospital care they need.

Our veterinarians work alongside an experienced veterinary nurse as atwo-person clinical team, travelling throughout Melbourne to assess and treat patients at home, provide pre-hospital stabilisation and safely transport pets to emergency and referral hospitals.

It’s clinical decision-making, teamwork, communication and emergency medicine in a very different environment than a clinic or hospital.

What does the job look like?

You’ll start your shift from ourbrand new headquarters in Huntingdale VICbefore heading into the community with your veterinary nurse teammate.

A shift alongside your nurse teammate may include:

• Urgent and emergency consultations in a patient’s home
• Assessment, treatment and stabilisation before hospital referral
• Home-to-hospital veterinary ambulance transport
• Inter-hospital transfers requiring ongoing clinical monitoring
• Palliative care and home euthanasia
• Longer-distance transports across Greater Melbourne and occasionally regional Victoria
• Communication with pet owners, referring vets, emergency hospitals and specialist teams

Some presentations are straightforward. Others require rapid assessment, stabilisation and a clear plan for escalation.

Every shift and case brings variety, and being on the road is a large part of the role.

Clinical medicine in the community

Working outside a hospital requires strong clinical judgement, adaptability and confidence making decisions in changing environments.

You’ll assess patients in their own homes, determine what can safely be managed there, recognise when escalation is required and coordinate the next stage of care.

Our ambulances support urgent and higher-acuity patients, with capabilities including:

• Oxygen therapy
• IV access and fluid therapy
• Sedation and anaesthesia
• Airway management and ventilation
• Emergency medications and resuscitation

Our role is not to replace the hospital. It is to provide high-quality veterinary carebefore the patient gets there, support them during transport and provide a smooth clinical handover to the receiving team.

You’ll have a teammate by your side.

Every clinical shift pairs aVeterinarian + Veterinary Nurse.

You attend cases together, travel together and care for patients together.

The model gives you skilled nursing support during assessment and stabilisation, another clinician beside you in unfamiliar environments, companionship on longer drives and an important additional layer of safety while working in the community.

You’ll build a close working partnership with your nurse teammate while still having the autonomy and responsibility expected of the attending veterinarian.

A different pace of emergency medicine

Ready Vet Go offers a lower case volume than a busy emergency hospital, with more time dedicated toindividual patient care, clinical reasoning, communication and coordination.

Your role may involve:

• Working through differentials and treatment options
• Explaining findings and recommendations to pet owners
• Supporting families through difficult decisions
• Communicating directly with referring veterinarians
• Coordinating with emergency and specialist hospitals

If you enjoy thecommunication and relationship side of veterinary medicine as much as the clinical side, you’ll likely enjoy this work.

Who we're looking for

We’d love to hear from veterinarians who:

• Enjoy urgent and emergency presentations
• Are confident assessing and managing unwell patients
• Enjoy clinical problem-solving and real-time decision-making
• Communicate clearly and compassionately with pet owners
• Value collaboration with veterinary nurses and referring teams
• Are adaptable and comfortable practising outside a traditional hospital environment
• Can work independently while valuing the support of a teammate
• Are comfortable driving and spending meaningful time on the road
• Take pride in professional documentation and clinical handover

Emergency or referral centre experience is highly regarded, but experienced general practice veterinarians with strong clinical foundations, good judgement and an enthusiasm for developing their urgent and emergency-care skills are also encouraged to apply.

Your onboarding will ensure you understand both the clinical and operational aspects of Ready Vet Go. You’ll initially work alongside experienced team members, with learning on the job actively encouraged.

You’ll require a veterinary qualification and current registration, or eligibility for registration, in Victoria.

Why join Ready Vet Go?

• Competitive remuneration of $130,000–$165,000 + superannuation (full-time equivalent), with salary determined based on your skills & experience
• Full-time and part-time opportunities
• No overnight shifts - brilliant!
• Work as part of a consistentVet + Nurse clinical team
• Practise urgent and emergency medicine outside a traditional hospital setting
• Work across homes, ambulances and veterinary hospitals throughout Melbourne
• Greater opportunity for individual patient care, client communication and clinical reasoning
• Build relationships with general practices, emergency hospitals and specialist teams
• Ongoing education and professional development
• Opportunities includingRECOVER CPR Rescuer Certification, internal and external CPD, and educational workshops
• Access to veterinary education and professional resources
• Be part of a growing service doing something genuinely different in Australian veterinary care

You might love this role if you enjoy:

• Getting out of the hospital and into the community
• Urgent and emergency veterinary medicine
• Working closely with an experienced veterinary nurse
• Clinical problem-solving and making independent decisions
• Spending time communicating with and supporting pet owners
• Building relationships with veterinary teams across Melbourne
• Driving, travelling and being on the move
• Having more time to focus on the patient currently in your care

If you’re looking forclinical variety, strong teamwork, meaningful client relationships and a veterinary career that takes you beyond the hospital floor, we’d love to meet you.

READY FOR SOMETHING NEW?

Use your emergency skills differently.

Ready Vet Go – Veterinary Ambulance & Mobile Urgent Care