Weekend Shelter Medicine Veterinarian
Part-Time | Saturdays and/or Sundays | 8:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Department: Shelter Medicine
Reports To: Medical Director, Shelter Medicine
Where exceptional medicine meets extraordinary impact.
At PAWS Chicago, shelter medicine is far more than routine wellness care—it's advanced, fast-paced, lifesaving medicine practiced every day.
As one of the nation's leading comprehensive animal welfare organizations, PAWS Chicago is committed to building a No Kill Chicago through innovation, collaboration, and exceptional veterinary care. Our medical team treats thousands of homeless and at-risk animals each year, achieving an industry-leading 97.83% Save Rate while caring for some of the region's most medically vulnerable patients.
Our veterinarians diagnose and treat everything from severe trauma, neonatal illness, and complex infectious disease to chronic medical conditions requiring long-term management. We are recognized for treating—and saving—patients with diseases many shelters once considered untreatable, including canine parvovirus and feline panleukopenia, through evidence-based protocols, dedicated isolation facilities, and an experienced multidisciplinary team.
Shelter medicine offers a depth and breadth of clinical experience unlike any other veterinary discipline. In a single shift, you may stabilize an emergency patient, manage a litter of critically ill neonatal kittens, develop treatment plans for infectious disease, collaborate on behavioral care, oversee recovery of postoperative patients, and help prepare healthy animals for adoption.
If you're looking for a position where every day challenges you clinically, develops your medical expertise, and allows you to save lives on a remarkable scale, we'd love to meet you.
Position Summary
The Shelter Medicine Veterinarian provides comprehensive medical care for animals in PAWS Chicago's shelter and foster programs, ensuring continuity of care seven days a week.
Working alongside an experienced medical and animal care team, this veterinarian delivers individualized patient care while supporting the health of the shelter population as a whole.This role combines emergency medicine, internal medicine, infectious disease management and collaborative case management in a leading shelter medicine program.
This part-time position works Saturdays and/or Sundays at the PAWS Chicago Medical Center (3516 W. 26th St). Weekend veterinarians are integral members of the medical team, ensuring critically ill patients receive exceptional care while supporting new admissions, ongoing treatments, and medical decision-making throughout the weekend.
What You'll Do
Deliver Exceptional Patient Care
Every day presents new medical challenges, new opportunities to learn, and new lives to save.
You'll work alongside one of the Midwest's most experienced shelter medicine teams, supported by dedicated veterinary technicians, behavior experts, and one of the nation's premier high-volume spay/neuter programs.
Most importantly, you'll experience the extraordinary reward of watching critically ill and injured animals recover, heal, and ultimately leave the shelter with the families they've been waiting for.
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