About this role

This is a chance to step into a Clinical Lead role with the runway to make it your own. You’ll set, uphold, and evolve clinical standards while coaching a team that’s already engaged and eager to grow. Co-leadership and part-time arrangements are on the table if that suits your life better, and the role can flex around the right person.

Day to day, you’ll work across a varied general practice caseload with the satisfaction of seeing cases through from first contact to outcome. You’ll have visiting specialist surgeons in regularly for orthopaedic and other advanced work, a purpose-built facility behind you, and a team that knows how to keep a hospital flowing.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Setting clinical standards and driving consistency across the team, with the autonomy to evolve protocols as the practice grows.
• Mentoring and developing the clinical team through case discussions, day-to-day coaching, and structured CPD.
• Managing a mixed medicine, surgery, and dentistry caseload, including second-opinion referrals from clients who already trust the practice.
• Working alongside visiting specialists on more complex cases to keep continuity of care in-house.
• Contributing to the commercial health of the practice with the support of an experienced national leadership network.
• If you’re an experienced veterinarian who’s drawn to the clinical work but not ready for a leadership title, we’re equally interested in talking. The right senior GP could make this clinic their own without taking on the lead role.

About you

You’re an experienced veterinarian who takes the work seriously and the people around you seriously too. You’re confident in your clinical instincts, comfortable making the call, and you enjoy bringing a team along with you. The Clinical Lead pathway will appeal if you’ve been waiting for the right environment to grow into leadership, with proper mentorship behind you rather than being thrown in.

You’ll bring a community-minded, collaborative approach, the patience to coach younger team members, and the commercial awareness to help a practice thrive alongside the clinical excellence. If you’re more interested in the senior GP track without the leadership remit, we’d still love to hear from you.

Formal requirements: minimum three years of post-graduate experience with a solid GP skillset across medicine, surgery, and dentistry; eligibility for veterinary registration in Australia (we offer visa sponsorship for candidates with degrees that can be registered locally).

Our location

Shepparton sits about two hours from Melbourne, regional enough to feel like a real place and connected enough that you’re not cut off. It’s a growing hub with proper infrastructure: cafes and restaurants worth a Saturday out, sports clubs that take new members seriously, and a school catchment that gives families options without a city commute. Houses are within reach for first-time buyers, the daily commute is whatever you make it, and weekends open up to the Goulburn River, the High Country snow runs, or a quick drive to the airport when the city calls.

Our offer

We’ve put together a package designed to make the move worthwhile and the role sustainable.

• Salary: $160,000 to $180,000 per annum (FTE), with generous remuneration packages available for experienced senior veterinarians beyond this range.
• Profit sharing: Available for the Clinical Lead role.
• Relocation: Up to $15,000 in relocation assistance.
• Housing support: Twelve months of rental support is available, subject to confirmation of the specific arrangement with the practice.
• CPD: Generous CPD allowance plus one week of CE leave, with leadership development support including induction, peer mentoring, and attendance at our national Leadership Conference.
• Memberships: $1,000 towards professional memberships or subscriptions.
• Registration: VSB registration paid.
• Leave: Paid parental leave and volunteer leave.
• Lifestyle: Discounts on retail, travel, and services, plus access to a national network for collaboration and career progression.
• Visa sponsorship and full relocation packages available for international candidates.

We’re also open to discussing alternative remuneration structures that might suit your circumstances better. Let’s have the conversation.