Veterinarian | Nebraska

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Job Description

Veterinarians: Find Your Next Home in Nebraska

Four great hospitals. One team invested in you.

Explore Our Nebraska Hospitals

  • Cotner Pet Care – Lincoln, NE
  • Superior Vet Care – Lincoln, NE
  • CareVet of Belmont – Lincoln, NE
  • Animal Health Center of Scottsbluff - Scottsbluff, NE
  • Associate Veterinarian
  • Full-Time or Part-Time | All Experience Levels Welcome

New graduate? Experienced DVM? Somewhere in between? There’s a place for you here.

At CareVet, we believe exceptional veterinary care starts with supporting exceptional veterinarians. We’re looking for compassionate, driven DVMs to join our welcoming, community-rooted Nebraska practices.

We make joining—and staying—worth it. Enjoy competitive compensation, generous three-year sign-on and retention bonus packages, plus a comprehensive suite of innovative health and wellness benefits.

And if Nebraska isn’t home yet, we can help get you here. Robust financial relocation packages are available to help make your move easier.

WHY DVMs LOVE CAREVET

Great medicine starts with great people—and great people do their best work when they’re supported both professionally and personally.

Your CareVet Benefits Include

  • Generous compensation + bonus opportunities
  • No negative accrual
  • Flexible scheduling + true paid time off
  • Paid family leave
  • Comprehensive medical benefits
  • 401(k) match
  • 1:1 career coaching + strong clinical support
  • Carebnb doctor vacation program
  • Financial planning platform + counseling
  • Collaborative, upbeat teams that actually enjoy working together

Practice the Medicine You WENT to School For

CareVet is helping raise the bar for clinical outcomes across veterinary medicine. By tracking and sharing real patient data across our network, we help our veterinarians make more informed decisions, elevate standards of care, and contribute to knowledge that benefits the profession as a whole.

  • You get to focus on great medicine—while knowing your work is helping advance veterinary care everywhere.
  • Ready to Find Your Place in Nebraska?
  • Whether you're looking for your first DVM role, your next career move, or simply a better work-life balance, we'd love to meet you.
  • Explore our Nebraska opportunities and find the practice that feels like home.

Responsibilities

  • Examine animals to assess their health and diagnose problems
  • Treat and dress wounds
  • Perform surgery on animals
  • Test for and vaccinate against diseases
  • Operate medical equipment, such as x-ray machines
  • Advise animal owners about general care, medical conditions, and treatments
  • Prescribe medication
  • Work closely in collaboration with team members to provide high quality care

Qualifications

  • Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (DVM/VMD) or equivalent degree required
  • Licensure in the state/s candidate will be working
  • Ability to show compassion to both pets and their owners
  • Outstanding dexterity in handling animals while performing precise tasks
  • Ability to react quickly and make decisions under pressure about the wellbeing of an animal
  • Strong fondness and understanding of animals
  • Good communication and interpersonal skills
  • Knowledge of animal behavior
  • Ability to use medical technologies during diagnosis, research and surgery of animals

How to Apply

If you’re excited about practicing high-quality medicine in a well-equipped hospital with a loyal client base and a collaborative, long‑tenured team, we’d love to connect.

To learn more or start the conversation, contact Stephanie Cooper at (303) 552‑8143 or scooper@carevethealth.com. You can also apply directly by clicking the button below.

About the Network

CareVet is a network of veterinary hospitals that focuses on managing best-in-class hospitals with a mission to provide the very best care for our pets and our Team Members. Our approach to veterinary medicine focuses on practice legacy, team, Veterinarians, patients and community.

Watch this video to learn more!

Qualifications

Education
Doctoral or professional degree (postgraduate degree)

Key Skills

Animal careVaccinationMedical equipment operationClient communicationPrescription managementClinical decision makingAnimal handlingTeam collaborationProblem solving

Veterinary Medicine Career Context

The cost-of-living index for Nebraska is 90.1 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)). 59.4% of Nebraska clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

Of the 50 active Veterinary Medicine listings this role was benchmarked against, 2% are remote, 74% have no call, 80% require no weekends.

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Annual compensation range

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Sign-on bonus
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401k / retirement match
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Relocation assistance
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CME allowance
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Loan repayment
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Work-life snapshot

median 6.0this job 2.8
Better work-life than 20% of Veterinary Medicine listings

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 3,108 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

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About CareVet Health

Veterinary Services
St. Louis, Missouri
201-500 employees

Benefits & Perks

Generous compensation + bonus opportunities
No negative accrual
Flexible scheduling + true paid time off
Paid family leave
Comprehensive medical benefits
401(k) match
1:1 career coaching + strong clinical support
Carebnb doctor vacation program