Lead DVM — Future Opportunities | Toronto

At Juno Veterinary, we’re building the next generation of animal care. Our mission is to make sure every pet - and every person who cares for them - has the support they need to thrive. We’re founder-owned, proudly Canadian, and creating the Juno Standard of Care for our members and our teams.

Juno is growing in Toronto. As new practices come to market, we want to meet the doctors who will help build the care teams behind them. This is a chance to start a conversation about future Lead DVM opportunities, not an application for a specific immediate opening.

Your Role in Juno’s Journey:

DVMs are the clinic captains. An important source of professional mentorship, our Doctors of Veterinary Medicine supervise treatment and ensure clinical excellence.

They uphold and practice the Juno Standard of Care, veterinary medicine of the highest quality, while being deeply compassionate, constantly collaborative, all while ensuring that every pet and person feel like they matter.

Juno veterinarians are not only the hands that care for our patients or the mind that solves problems - they are the heart behind every act of compassion that ripples out across our clinics and community.

As a Lead DVM you have a role in shaping associate DVMs into excellent and compassionate doctors, collaborative colleagues, and thoughtful partners in Juno’s evolution of pet care. You are also a partner to your PM to understand and support the success of clinic teams through medicine, member experience, and efficient operations.

Who You Are

You recognize that growth does not stop, that there is always an opportunity to learn, develop and keep getting better. You, like the medicine you practice, are always evolving, and know that feedback is one of the keys to growth and proactively seek it out.

You are passionate about your work in the veterinary community and the quality of care that you provide.

You recognize the value in all roles within the clinic, from DVM to ACA and you celebrate team work and collaboration within it. You know that communication is an important part of successful collaboration with our teams and our members, and work to be a compassionate and clear communicator.

You take initiative, and have a can-do attitude that focuses on solutions and progress

You are adaptable and flexible within your clinic environment and in the company as a whole

You see Juno’s vision, mission and goals and surprise! They match with yours!

You want to support and guide other parts of the clinic team, medically and otherwise

You want to partner with your PM and Juno to understand and help create a successful clinic from the lenses of the team, the members, and the business.

You have a basic interest in and/or understanding of veterinary business metrics and how good medicine leads to a healthy business

Let’s keep it real, we know that Juno won’t be for everyone. As a group, we rank feedback and two-way communication as one of our core values and so we want to be transparent in helping you determine if this is a fit. How can you tell if this is for you? Well, this role is definitely for you if want to:

Always Be Growing: Our industry, our community, is constantly growing and evolving (as it should)! You thrive in being adaptable, curious and thinking outside of the box to help create and be part of a work environment and culture where people thrive! We unlock the tools and resources, you step into your potential and continue to grow alongside us.

Be part of One Team: At Juno we work together, as one across the community of clinics and across the different roles. You want to join a team of veterinary professionals who are all practicing at the top of their skillset. You come together as one to develop our foundation, solve the problems and support each other in the nitty gritty. As one, our teams have each others' backs, celebrating the wins and working through the lows.

Provide the Juno Standard of Care: Gold-standard medicine is the way we practice medicine. The Juno Standard of Care means really stepping into your role and utilizing your skills and knowledge to its full potential. It means locking arms with your team, knowing that you are all here to support each other, collaborate within your roles and have the same goal in mind and heart - medicine of the highest quality with the wellbeing of the pet always at the forefront. You see the value in each team member, because together as one, you can heal and save lives. And while there’s a whole lot of knowledge on your team, you recognize that pet owners can need some support to fully understand what’s going on. Not to worry, on top of being a vet med superhero, you also are a people person, and understand the value of communication and relationship building within our interactions. You represent a stellar standard of care to all you encounter within your work - the Juno Standard of Care.

The Ideal Previous Work Experience

You have a minimum of 5 years experience in clinic and love all things wellness, medicine, surgery and dentistry

Medical competence: able to diagnose and treat infectious, inflammatory, metabolic, degenerative, physiologic and environmental disease

Urgent care: able to triage and stabilize urgent/emergent cases before referring

Surgical competence: feline spay and neuter, canine spay and neuter (including mature and large breed), cryptorchid neuter, umbilical hernia repair, mass removals, cystotomy, laceration repair, eyelid surgery, enucleation, gastropexy

Dental competence: charting, reading XR, gingival flaps, burring and sectioning, extractions, closing extraction sites

Comfort with POCUS and abdominal ultrasound a plus

You have a strong interest in leadership, previous leadership experience a plus

Your Skills

Drives Juno vision and purpose within the clinic

Builds effective teams

Sets expectations and leads by example

Hold teams accountable

Able to address conflict

Develops individuals via coaching

Basic interest in and/or understanding of veterinary business metrics and how good medicine leads to a healthy business

Ability to see and understand the perspective of all of our stakeholders- the pets, the members, the team and the organization

Able to partner with PM and Juno as a whole to develop and execute initiatives to evolve our care

Communicates clearly and compassionate with team and members

Medical, surgical and dental as above

Demonstrates excellent time management skills - is able to manage scheduled appointments, walk-ins, urgent cases and tasks

Remains productive; during slower periods, be able to self-start and motivate support staff

Displays problem-solving capabilities to adapt, troubleshoot, and/or brainstorm solutions when something isn’t working well; this includes contacting the next level up for help and/or support

Possesses self-knowledge of strengths and weaknesses

Is able to hear and act on feedback

Motivated to grow personally and professionally

Able to flow with the changes that occur at Juno as we grow and continually test/improve our processes

Works collaboratively with team members and is willing to help out with non-doctor tasks when needed (and able to)

Works collaboratively with other veterinarians in clinic and company-wide to make sure they are on the same page medically and to seek out help with challenging cases

What You’ll Be Doing

Manage medical safety reports and medical quality

Shadow appointments and review medical records with the intent to mentor as needed

Have consistent 1:1s with DVMs to coach them on medicine, surgery, dentistry, member experience and team communication

Partner with PM to support medical operational efficiency, member experience, and team development

Meetings - regular cadence of meetings with your DVMs, PM, leads, the NMD, other LDVMs

Annual DVM reviews and development planning

You want to use your DVM status