Lead Veterinarian
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About the Role
Paws & Co is seeking a Lead Veterinarian to lead general practice and deliver proactive, continuous care through a membership model. The role requires a recognized veterinary degree, 5+ years experience, and strong diagnostic imaging skills including abdominal ultrasonography.
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Responsibilities
- Deliver the full scope of general practice including wellness exams, vaccinations, diagnostics, internal medicine, dentistry, routine surgery and urgent care
- Practise prevention first: detect disease early and deliver proactive, life stage and breed specific care
- Build lasting relationships with patients and their families, and own continuity of care
- Perform routine medical and surgical procedures with confidence
- Guide pet parents with honesty, empathy and transparency
- Work alongside highly skilled veterinary nurses
- Deliver end of life care with compassion, dignity and grace
Requirements
- Recognized veterinary degree and eligibility to practise as a veterinarian in the UAE
- Minimum 5 years' experience in general practice
- Solid general practice range: internal medicine, dentistry and routine soft tissue surgery
- Strong diagnostic imaging skills including abdominal ultrasonography, point of care ultrasound and radiographic interpretation
- Experience in echocardiography is highly desirable
- Warmth and real communication skills
- Prevention first instinct and genuine appetite for continuity and relationship medicine
- Honesty about cost and options
- Team first attitude
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About the Role
- You lead the full spectrum of general practice and take ownership of every patient's healthcare journey.
- Through our app and personalised care plans, you deliver proactive, continuous care, not just individual consultations.
- Your clinical judgement comes first; every decision is made in the best interests of the patient.
What you will do
- Deliver the full scope of general practice including wellness exams, vaccinations, diagnostics, internal medicine, dentistry, routine surgery and urgent care.
- Practise prevention first. Detect disease early. Deliver proactive, life stage and breed specific care.
- Build lasting relationships with your patients and their families, and own continuity of care.
- Perform routine medical and surgical procedures with confidence. Know when specialist input will deliver the best outcome.
- Guide pet parents with honesty, empathy and transparency. Recommend only what the patient needs, never what a revenue target demands.
- Work alongside highly skilled veterinary nurses who practise at the top of their game.
- Deliver end of life care with compassion, dignity and grace. Support families in a dedicated farewell suite designed for peaceful goodbyes.
What you bring
- A recognised veterinary degree, and eligibility to practise as a veterinarian in the UAE (minimum 5 years' experience).
- Solid general practice range: internal medicine, dentistry and routine soft tissue surgery.
- Strong diagnostic imaging skills including abdominal ultrasonography, point of care ultrasound and radiographic interpretation. Experience in echocardiography is highly desirable.
- Warmth and real communication. You read the animal and the human in front of you, and you make people understand.
- A prevention first instinct, and a genuine appetite for continuity and relationship medicine.
- Honesty about cost and options, and a clear sense that care comes before commerce.
- A team first attitude. You lift the nurses and colleagues around you.
What we offer
- Above market pay, and genuine clinical autonomy under Dr. Farah Murrani.
- Ownership: our vets are owners, not just employees, with real skin in the game.
- Our wellbeing programme, the first in the region to take veterinary team mental health seriously.
- Time to practise proper medicine, with prevention and continuity built into the model, not squeezed out of it.
- Modern tools and toys, an in house app for records, booking, telemedicine and care plans, and clinics designed around the work.
- One percent of everything we make going back to animal welfare, through our Community Fund.
About Paws & Co
- Paws & Co is the first subscription first veterinary brand in the region, opening in Dubai and scaling across the GCC and into Asia Pacific.
- 50+ clinics. One name. One standard. One promise.
- We are building the clinic pet parents deserve and the one the profession deserves at the same time: care before commerce, prevention over transactions, and vets who are supported, not squeezed.
- One percent of everything we make, our time and our product goes back to the animals who need it most.
- Founded by a team with a strong track record of building businesses in the UAE, and led clinically by Dr. Farah Murrani, with 25 years across the UAE, GCC, USA and South Africa.
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