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Are you a DMV with years of experience, a recent graduate of vet school, or somewhere in between? Are you passionate about the health, happiness, and wellbeing of cats and dogs? Cherry Knolls is a small animal private practice looking for a full time associate vet to join their team in Centennial, Colorado.

About us

Here at Cherry Knolls, we are proud to be an AAHA certified, woman owned, independently owned small animal practice of 20+ years. We have a loyal and growing client base, and we are located off a well trafficked neighborhood road. We pride ourselves on being a full service hospital with up-to-date equipment, including a full in-house lab suite, and digital full body and dental X-ray machines. We utilize mobile specialists as much as possible to reduce our patients’ travel stress, and we offer alternative procedures such as PRP and stem cell therapy. As a single-doctor facility open 4 days a week, we are an almost million dollar practice.

What we are looking for

A passionate associate vet, ready to work and thrive in a small animal practice. Recent grads and young vets looking for mentoring are welcome!

Experience and Skill Requirements
  • Colorado DVM license in good standing
  • Experience giving thorough exams and practicing gentle handling
  • Confident surgeon
  • Good listening, communicating, and people skills, and a desire to educate, and otherwise maximize the experience and benefit of clients as well as of pets.
  • Sufficient computer skills to navigate and utilize veterinary records software.
About the Job
  • Minimum of 40 hours a week
  • Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday shifts with Dr. Shannon, with an eye to eventually being able to rotate days in a 6-day work week.
Wages
  • During the 90 day training period, you will earn a salary of $80,000-$120,000/year depending on starting experience and skill level
  • Once the training period and review are complete, this salary will be increased to $100,000- 140,000/year
  • Per your sign on agreement, you may receive a Production Bonus
Career development
  • $1,000 stipend every year for Continuing Education.
Training
  • As the new associate vet, you will be trained in:
  • PIMS (Pulse)
  • All CKVC systems and procedures
  • Routine surgeries including dentals
  • STEM cell replacement therapy, PRP therapy, laser therapy, and Assisi loop
We offer as much mentoring as needed for you to build up your own client base.

Benefits
  • Cherry Knolls Veterinary Clinic has a health insurance plan through Kaiser. CKVC will pay 50% of the employee’s premium. Health insurance would start after 60 days of employment.
  • You will receive two weeks of paid time off in the first year of employment, to be taken after the first 90 days.
  • Six paid holidays per year.
  • Full reimbursement of veterinary licenses renewal, DEA, VIN membership and AVMA membership.
  • AVMA PLIT and AVMA provide long and short term disability.
  • Cherry Knolls Veterinary Clinic has a 401K Simple Plan. Per the plan documents, would be eligible to join after 1 year of continuous employment and we match up to 3% of contributions.
  • Bereavement leave for loss of pets
Personal Pet Benefits

The wellbeing of pets is our priority—and that includes our employee’s pets! We offer discounts on all services rendered to the pets of full-time employees.