Municipal Veterinarian (Practitioner)

Seeking a municipal veterinarian (practitioner) for the South Häme Environmental Health unit on a permanent public-service appointment starting 4 January 2027 or as agreed. The supervisory unit began on 1 January 2023 and covers nine municipalities, with a population base of about 93,000. Riihimäki City is the responsible municipality. Environmental health services employ 27 people and are led by the Environmental Health Manager. You will join the veterinary care team at the Riihimäki office. Your colleagues there will include another municipal veterinarian, two animal care workers and a supervisory veterinarian. The Jokioinen office has four municipal veterinarians, an animal care worker and a supervisory veterinarian. The duties include varied municipal veterinary practice. The practice area includes companion animals, production animals and horses. In addition to practice, the work includes some primary production supervision and supervision of animal imports and exports, animal welfare and animal diseases. The position includes on-call duty, amounting to one sixth of the on-call shifts. The on-call service covers both small and large animals. We provide more compensatory time off than the doctors’ agreement requires, and on-call duties are paid at a locally agreed rate that is somewhat higher than usual. We support wellbeing at work by enabling compensatory leave and flexible work arrangements. The eligibility requirement is a veterinary qualification licensed in Finland. If you obtained your veterinary qualification in an EU or EEA country other than Finland, you must also have the familiarity with Finnish legislation in the relevant field required by section 43 of the Act on the Practice of the Veterinary Profession (29/2000). We value an enthusiastic attitude, good interaction and teamwork skills, and previous experience in similar duties. In addition to eligibility, we will consider your suitability for the position. We offer: - Support from a skilled and communicative work community, and engaging, varied work. - Opportunities to develop your expertise through internal and external training. We have access to the Eduhouse online training library. - Good occupational health services through Terveystalo. - Other Riihimäki City employee benefits, including Epassi and personal wellbeing and exercise guidance. The position starts on 4 January 2027 or as agreed. The first six months are a probationary period. Salary and employment terms follow the general municipal collective agreement (KVTES). The level-based salary is €2,574.69 per month. In addition, you may receive an experience-based supplement of 3% or 8% of the job-specific salary, and, after six months, a personal supplement based on a performance assessment. Before the appointment is confirmed, the selected candidate must provide an approved medical certificate regarding their state of health. Recruitment is anonymous. This means the recruiting manager will not see applicants’ personal information, such as name, gender, age or nationality. The person processing applications will also not see attachments if the application form allows attachments. When writing free-text application material, please do not include your age, gender or other information irrelevant to the position. Once interview candidates have been selected from the anonymous applications, recruitment will proceed normally. The aim of anonymous recruitment is to focus attention on applicants’ professional expertise. Submit your application online through kuntarekry.fi by 9:00 on 16 November 2026. If you cannot apply through the Kuntarekry system, you may submit a written application by 9:00 on 16 November 2026 to Riihimäki City Registry, PO Box 125, 11101 Riihimäki. Interviews are planned for 24–25 November 2026.