Veterinarian - Veterinary Telemedicine

August 3, 2026

Every Canadian pet deserves care that's within reach and affordable. Yet, half of Canadian pet owners skipped or declined needed care for their pet in the past year, mostly on cost [1]. Nearly nine in ten Canadian veterinarians report burnout [2]. We are launching a televeterinary service to remove the bottlenecks between pet owners and the veterinary care their animals need. We are looking for an experienced veterinarian to help build it - and grow with it. The business is at launch, so as an early hire you will set the clinical bar and shape what the practice offers. Clinical care will focus on dogs and cats. We are not treating horses, livestock, exotics, or other small animals at this stage. How to ApplyPlease visit our website and complete our application form:https://telepets.ca/app/careers/ What this role asks of youIf you want a defined scope and a fully-built protocol set to step into, this is not that role. If you are energised by building those things, please read on.<ul><li>Clinical Autonomy. Define how we deliver care, set and refine the clinical guidelines our practice runs on, and navigate the edge cases of safe veterinary telemedicine as we expand our scope.</li><li>Clinical SME to the team. Bring a clinical lens to product, design, and operational decisions - making the team's work sharper than it would be without you.</li></ul> What you'll do<ul><li>Conduct messaging-based consultations with pet owners - asynchronous and real-time as required</li><li>Help us build the platform - lend clinical input across the user journey, from intake forms through to the care a pet receives, including ongoing refinement of clinical guidelines</li><li>Prescribe medications within your provincial scope of practice</li><li>Decline cases that are not eligible for veterinary telemedicine, and tell owners clearly and kindly why and where to go instead.</li></ul> Who we're looking forRequired<ul><li>Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (DVM) with an active license in good standing with the College of Veterinarians of Ontario (CVO).</li><li>Actively practising through a CVO-accredited veterinary facility, which you maintain throughout the engagement</li><li>Minimum 3 years post-DVM in companion animal practice (general or referral). We are not the right first employer for a new graduate.</li><li>You are comfortable as the senior clinical voice on a case. When you do not have the answer, you know where to look, who to call</li><li>Tech-savvy. You will use new web tools every week, some of them rough around the edges. You will tell us when they are wrong rather than working around them quietly.</li><li>Reshape your practice to telemedicine. You do not try to replicate the in-person exam on a screen - you actively find what can be done well and safely in this format, and you say so plainly when a case needs an in-person visit instead.</li></ul> The temperament we are looking for<ul><li>High integrity. The platform's reputation will be set, one case at a time, by your clinical judgment. You hold the line on declining a treatment an owner is pushing for.</li><li>Team player. You see something that needs doing - a missing piece of advice, a confusing form, a drug interaction we missed - and you raise it or fix it. You do not wait to be asked.</li><li>Comfortable with ambiguity. Things will change. Some weeks will be slow. Some weeks, we will ship a feature that breaks something. You roll with it.</li></ul> Nice to haves<ul><li>Licensure in a second province (BC, AB, MB) or willingness to add one</li><li>Experience with companion animals other than dogs and cats</li><li>Past locum, relief, or remote consulting work</li><li>Any prior product, technology, or startup exposure - even informally</li></ul> What we offer<ul><li>Flexible hours, set by you. Pick the hours that work for your life - overlapping with business hours, on a schedule you can change with a few days' notice. We expect your availability to shift; we just need to know.</li><li>A gradual ramp. Start with a few hours a week and scale up as the practice scales - or stay light, if light is what you want.</li><li>Designed to fit around what you already do. Keep your clinic role, your locum shifts, whatever else you have going. This role is meant to complement an existing career, not replace one.</li><li>Competitive per-review compensation calibrated against locum hourly rates in Ontario.</li><li>Fully remote</li><li>No on-call. No after-hours. No emergencies. No clients in your waiting room.</li></ul> References[1]: PetSmart Charities of Canada-Gallup, State of Pet Care Study (pet-owner survey), June 11 2025[2]: Jones-Bitton A, Gillis D, Peterson M, McKee H. "Latent burnout profiles of veterinarians in Canada: Findings from a cross-sectional study." Veterinary Record, 2023

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