On-Site Veterinarian

ALWAYS & FUREVER MIDWEST ANIMAL SANCTUARY · ST. FRANCIS OUTREACH

On-Site Veterinarian

Position Description

Organization

Always & Furever Midwest Animal Sanctuary, in partnership with St. Francis Outreach

Reports to

Medical Director (works closely with executive leadership)

Locations

Osawatomie, KS (mobile clinic) · Spring Hill, KS (mobile clinic) · Kansas City, MO (new brick-and-mortar campus, opening 2027)

Schedule

Full-time, 40 hours/week

Licensure

Active veterinary license in both Missouri and Kansas; DEA-eligible

About Always & Furever

Always & Furever Midwest Animal Sanctuary is a mission-driven nonprofit that provides lifesaving care to the animals who need it most, caring for approximately 300 animals a day across our sanctuary and foster network while supporting rescue partners throughout the Kansas City region. Our medical work extends beyond our own animals through two signature initiatives the On-Site Veterinarian will help deliver:

The Veterinary Rescue Collaboration (VRC)

The VRC is an invitation-only, mission-aligned partnership that gives smaller rescues guaranteed, affordable access to the same high-quality surgical and medical care our own animals receive — so no animal waits weeks for a surgery it needs now. Partners reserve monthly veterinary capacity through flat retainers rather than per-procedure pricing, with medications and labs billed at direct cost and no profit motive. Delivered through Always & Furever (Missouri) and St. Francis Outreach, LLC (Kansas), the VRC handles the cases that leave most rescues stranded on emergency-clinic waitlists: pyometra spays, mass and tumor removals, foreign-body surgeries, amputations, complex dentals, and high-volume spay/neuter days.

Community Care

Community Care is a neighbor-helping-neighbor fund that helps families keep the pets they love when a veterinary bill is more than they can manage. Funded entirely by donors and local business sponsors — never by taxpayer dollars — residents apply, a fair monthly drawing selects recipients, and care is delivered by our own veterinary team through the mobile clinic, partner clinic days, and our facilities. First launched as the Osawatomie Community Care Fund (OCC), the program is expanding across the communities we serve. Community Care delivers the full standard of veterinary medicine — proper anesthesia, monitoring, diagnostics, and follow-up — covering wellness exams, vaccines, spay/neuter, dental, and common medical concerns.

Where you fit in

The On-Site Veterinarian is central to both program: providing the surgical and medical care that makes VRC partnerships possible and Community Care appointments a reality, all while maintaining the highest standard of care for the sanctuary’s own population of dogs and cats.

Position Purpose

The Always & Furever On-Site Lead Veterinarian will deliver high-quality medical care to all shelter animals — including, but not limited to, spay/neuter and the treatment of a wide range of medical conditions — and will extend that same standard of care to the animals and families served through the Veterinary Rescue Collaboration and Community Care programs across our Osawatomie and Spring Hill, Kansas locations and our 2027 Kansas City, Missouri campus.

Duties and Responsibilities

Responsibilities will include, but are not limited to, the following:

Clinical Care

• Provide high-quality, practical veterinary care to a wide range of patients — sanctuary animals, VRC partner animals, and Community Care patients alike.
• Perform routine spay/neuter surgeries and, depending on experience and interest, advanced soft tissue and orthopedic procedures.
• Provide high-quality, individualized preventative care while maintaining overall population health using best practices.

Shelter Medicine

• Develop treatment plans in accordance with established shelter medical protocols and in collaboration with the Medical Director.
• Perform intake examinations on new arrivals to the shelter.
• Assess medical prognosis and assist in making appropriate euthanasia decisions.
• Complete health certificates for A&F animals traveling out of state.
• Collaborate with medical staff to provide weekly prognosis updates on ongoing medical cases.

Communication

• Maintain thorough, high-quality medical records, documenting all exam findings, test results, and treatments.
• Communicate with foster families and adopters directly or indirectly using a shared clinic phone line.
• Coordinate referrals to specialty hospitals through other medical team members.
• Communicate with other staff members via Teams communication channels.

Leadership

• Assist the Medical Director in coaching and development of medical support staff.
• Participate in team huddles, team meetings, and 1-on-1 meetings with the Medical Director as scheduled.
• Assist Medical Director with coordination of mobile clinic maintenance.
• Drive a veterinary mobile clinic (26 ft) and relocate it as needed for daily appointments.
• Set and model a standard of continuous improvement in all aspects of Always & Furever Midwest Animal Sanctuary’s care and handling of dogs and cats.

Qualifications

• Must be currently licensed in the State of Kansas and currently licensed or able to become licensed in the State of Missouri, as this role serves patients across all three locations.
• Must be qualified and eligible to obtain a DEA license.
• Open to seasoned veterinarians or new graduates – confidence-boosting will be mentorship provided!

Knowledge and Skills

• Experience and knowledge of shelter/population medicine and epidemiology are helpful.
• Knowledge of disease recognition in a shelter setting.
• Effective decision-making and diagnostic skills, with an interest in pursuing treatment options.
• Strong customer service and oral/written communication skills, with an interest in networking with other professionals and rescue partners.
• Able to work well under pressure and handle multiple tasks at one time.
• Able to deal with staff, volunteers, and clients in a professional manner.
• Able to direct the work of others and train and develop employees.

Working Conditions

Work is performed in a mobile veterinary clinic with shared office space, across the Osawatomie, KS and Spring Hill, KS locations and the Kansas City, MO campus (opening December 2026). There is potential for exposure to diseases, dangerous and fractious animals, high noise levels, hazardous chemicals, anesthetics, and sharp objects. Field conditions may be encountered. The role involves occasional lifting of up to or over 50 pounds, the potential for standing on feet for 8+ hours a day (40-hour work week), and animal handling in a veterinary setting.

Compensation and Benefits

We believe in treating our people as well as we treat our animals. We invest in people first and programs always — and we back that up with meaningful pay and benefits.

Compensation

• Salary commensurate with experience and highly competitive for the field.

Benefits and perks

• Health, dental, and vision insurance.
• 401(k) with employer matching.
• Three weeks of paid vacation.
• Paid holidays.
• Paid continuing-education (CE) leave to support your growth and licensure — in addition to your vacation time.
• Reimbursement of veterinary license and DEA registration fees.
• Professional liability (malpractice) coverage provided by the organization.
• Free veterinary care for employees’ own pets.
• A mission-driven, people-first culture that invests in both our team and the programs that serve more of the community.

Our Culture and Room to Grow

Always & Furever leads with a servant-leadership mindset: we support, coach, and empower our people so they can do the best work of their careers. This is a role with genuine room to grow. As our programs expand, so does our medical team:

• Room to grow into greater leadership and scope as the organization expands across all three locations.
• The opportunity to mentor and work with veterinary students, helping shape the next generation of shelter and rescue veterinarians.
• Plans to add additional doctors to the team, building a collaborative medical department rather than a solo practice.
• The chance to expand our reach as Community Care grows, much of it donation-based, so we can help more families and pets across the community.

People first, programs always

At Always & Furever, we value and love every animal as a soul, never as inventory or income. That same belief shapes how we treat our team: with kindness, dignity, and respect. We are #NotYourAverageShelter, and we are not your average workplace.

Our Mission and Values

Our dream is

To wake up in a world where every soul is treated with kindness, dignity, and respect and most importantly, their life has been touched by love, even if only for a moment. Because at Always & Furever, every life matters.

We rescue the animals no one else will take — the seniors, the sick, the forgotten, and those on the brink of euthanasia. We never shy away from a complex or expensive medical case, because we have seen miracles happen again and again. One of our mottos is that you cannot put a price on any animal’s life — they are all priceless to us. We do not charge adoption fees, and we run on the generosity of a community of animal lovers who believe, as we do, that every soul deserves love.

Always & Furever Midwest Animal Sanctuary is an equal-opportunity employer committed to a compassionate, mission-driven workplace.

Always & Furever Midwest Animal Sanctuary · alwaysandfurever.org