
Are you an experienced emergency veterinarian ready to take the next step in your leadership journey? VRH, a leading multi-disciplinary specialist referral hospital, is seeking a passionate and driven Emergency Veterinary Team Leader to guide our dedicated emergency team.
In this pivotal role, you’ll lead a team of emergency veterinarians, ensuring the delivery of high-quality, patient-centred care. You’ll foster a collaborative and inclusive team culture, support clinical excellence, and work closely with other specialist departments to maintain seamless patient care across services. The Team Leader will work alongside Dr Samantha Day, Head of Critical Care, to ensure continuity of care and team support.
About VRH
The Veterinary Referral Hospital has been providing veterinary referral and emergency services to the pets of Melbourne for over 25 years. We take great pride in delivering the highest possible standards of veterinary medicine and customer service.
Our hospital is a purpose-built 24-hour ECC and referral facility. We have all the equipment you need to practice at your best and continue learning new skills. More importantly, we have the only truly multi-disciplinary veterinary team in Victoria, including specialists in Emergency and Critical Care, Internal Medicine, Surgery, Diagnostic Imaging, Neurology and Anaesthesia. Our case-load is incredibly varied, interesting and often challenging.
You’ll be joining a friendly and supportive ECC team that includes 3 ECC specialists (FANZCVS and DACVECC), an ECC Registrar, ANZCVS Membership veterinarians, experienced emergency vets, and recent graduates. Our ECC nurses are among the best in the industry—passionate, hardworking, and dedicated to high levels of patient care.
We foster a culture of collaboration, innovation, and life-long learning and we’re committed to maintaining a sustainable work-life balance while delivering exceptional patient and client care.
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For a confidential chat please reach out to prachi.sawant@gxltd.com.au or 0449 790 813 | WhatsApp +61449 790 813
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Established in 1994, Greencross Vets is the largest veterinary services provider in Australia where we operate over 150+ clinics including General Practices and Animal Emergency Clinics.
As Australia's leading veterinary group, we provide pet owners access to a network of well-equipped veterinary practices run by local veterinary teams, which offer exceptional client and patient care.
We feature some of the most advanced practices in the veterinary industry and choose the best diagnostic tools, treatments and preventative measures based on clinical excellence.
Greencross are part of a community of vets who enjoy sharing their knowledge and clinical expertise. Complex cases can be discussed with our centres of excellence, where we have the most advanced equipment and nationally recognised teams of specialist vets. Finally, there’s our Vet Advisory Board (VAB) that leads our clinical practice and maintains our high standards consistently across the group.
Our operations include:
• General Practices
• Emergency Centres
• Specialist Centres
General practices, consisting of veterinary practices that offer consultations and associated diagnostics capabilities and general practice medical and surgical treatment options. Emergency centres, providing full animal hospital facilities for after-hours care and treatment of sick pets, and Specialist centres providing veterinary care across a number of specialist services including medicine, surgery, pathology, radiology, dermatology, cardiology, ophthalmology and dentistry.
For more information about Greencross Vets and our culture please visit www.greencrossvet.com.au or www.greencrossvet.com.au/careers to learn more about joining Greencross Vets.