Career Center

Remarkable Culture:  Animal Hospitals of Rowlett/Heath are hospitals where you come to stay and build your career. Our Associate DVMS have been with us for over 50+ years. We foster a learning environment while providing opportunities for our team members to expand their skillset and nurture individual growth and development.  

Work Life Balance:  We focus on the well-being of our team to provide work-life balance. We offer a 4–day work week (or 3 longer days if preferred).  No Sundays and no after hours ER. We also offer a rotating 4 day weekend that averages every 6 weeks. This allows our employees an excellent opportunity for a life outside of work.  We have a dedicated 1 hour lunch and monthly DVM team meetings during the lunch period.  

Unique opportunity to work the hours that produce the amount you desire. 

Perfect Location:  Rowlett provides a small-town setting while having the amenities of urban living. If you want land and horses, you can easily commute to our suburban location.  Dallas is only a few miles away and offers amazing sports teams, “foodie” quality dining, live music, and culture! We are located on Lake Ray Hubbard, a fishing and boater’s dream! Our area is below the national average for cost of living.  Relocation assistance available.  We are close to Love Field and DFW International airport, with major flight paths to travel worldwide.  We are lucky to live in a metroplex that offers access to emergency clinics, specialty practices, mobile cardiologists, mobile internists and mobile surgeons who frequent our practice for those special cases.  

Mentorship: We offer a customizable mentorship program with access to additional CE like the FRANK seminar and Power Into Practice Program.  Being a member of both AAHA and VMG have benefits for our privately owned practice that allow us to offer various opportunities to our associates.  Our doctor team works together to solve difficult cases and are available to each other for medical consults.  

Work-life Rewards:  We offer a competitive ProSal with no negative accrual ($100-150k+), 4 weeks of PTO, Simple IRA + 3% company match, flexible $2000+ annual continuing education allowance, VIN membership, licensure, uniforms, Simple IRA, AVMA PLIT, defend my license coverage, health insurance, daycare for personal pets, discounted pet care and up to $1000+ in complementary pet services annually.  Corporates tend towards LONG exhausting shifts, often with a sink or swim attitude. Signing bonuses create indentured servitude. We are PRIVATELY OWNED!

About Us:  Our Rowlett location is both AAHA accredited for 25+ years and has a gold level cat friendly practice certification.  We are fear free and provide only low stress handling.  Every detail of our clinic, down to the temperature, smells and artwork were dictated by our low stress culture.  When you enter our facility, you are greeted by two entrances - once for dogs and one for cats.  The dog entrance takes you to a spacious lobby and retail area, 5 large exam rooms, a full pharmacy, lab, treatment and ICU area, surgical suite, comfort/acupuncture room, radiology room, dental suite, special procedures room (endoscopy and ultrasound) along with isolation suites, doctor station and breakroom.  Our feline entrance takes you to a feline only lobby, kitty boarding with a 500 gallon aquarium, a cat only treatment room and two well appointed exam rooms for our feline friends.  We also offer a full service grooming and boarding services.  

Our Heath location is about 13 miles from Rowlett and boasts three exam rooms, a surgical suite, grooming facility and treatment area. We have a unique workflow in which each doctor has an exam room assistant trained to scribe their medical notes as the exam and client communications take place. This allows the client to leave with complete exam notes, captures all charges and ensures no time is spent at the end of the shift completing medical notes. We use DVMAX as our electronic medical records and also have several other comparable softwares for texting and emailing clients. So many of the wonderful aspects of our private practice are not describable on paper - you have to see it to understand! Please come take a tour and meet our team!  www.ahrdvm.com www.ahhdvm.com 

What we are looking for!

Not only do you love dogs and cats, but you are enthusiastic about surgery and have the basics (spay, neuter, dentistry/extractions, tumor removals, etc.) covered. You are focused on providing excellent client communication and are committed to delivering the best possible care to the animals of our community.  You would be interested in pursuing local ultrasound training to become skilled at A-FAST and T-FAST ultrasounds (at minimum).  You would enjoy working in a team environment and discussing difficult cases.  You would build relationships with your clients and provide an experience that keeps them coming back to you.  You would work well alongside our team to help coach and grow their skills.  You would be organized and customer centric, understanding the importance of timely call backs and follow up to build your clientele.  You would genuinely like both people and pets.