VCA Canada Careers and Employment

Work wellbeing

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Work wellbeing score is Low, 60 out of 100

Happiness

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Low

Purpose

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Below average

Satisfaction

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Low

Stress-free

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Low

About the company

Founded
1981
Company size
1,001 to 5,000
Industry
Personal Consumer Services
Headquarters
1-6325 12 St SE Calgary,...
Link
VCA Canada website

VCA Canada Animal Hospitals is a family of over 130 small animal veterinary practices located across 5 Canadian provinces. Our team of over 4,000 associates provides our communities with general, emergency, and specialty services in our practices, offering compassionate care for pets and their families. Our purpose of Caring For Life’s Greatest Companions is felt in every part of the VCA Canada experience, whether it is our patients, our clients, our team members, or our communities....

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Rating overview

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Reviews

Registered Veterinary Technician in Scarborough, ON

on 19 September 2023

Great team, poor management

Poor management of changes in clinic. Money hungry. Unsupportive. Unhealthy working conditions. When offered support, never followed through. Poor leadership.

Veterinary Assistant/Receptionist in Bedford, NS

on 25 September 2023

Would not recommend working there

Worked there for about 2 weeks. During that time I seen how poor the management is. More interested in making a profit than their employees and clients. I would not take my animals there and I do not recommend this place to friends.

Registered Veterinary Technician in Victoria, BC

on 8 September 2023

VCA is the WORST

Working at VCA was a disappointing experience. The work culture was negative, marked by a palpable lack of compassion for both employees and clients. Management seemed solely motivated by profit, often at the expense of employee well-being. VCA is apparently suffering financially and as a result I watched some of my wonderful coworkers get laid off (yet as a corporation they continue to buy out ...

RVT in Ontario

on 8 September 2023

Too corporate

I love the team I work with, but the general lack of pay and being overworked because of lack of staff is to much. There is zero wiggle room for work life balance. Understaffed is causing a large drop in patient care and upper management won't care until a patient dies. The case load is too high and nothing is being done about it. The differences between clinics is vast and not one works in the sa...

Veterinary Assistant in Ottawa, ON

on 23 August 2023

Gain a lot of experience

Great place for someone looking to get experience in emergency veterinary medicine as you will get to see anything you could think of working here. The biggest issue I had with working here is that they were perpetually understaffed. There was a constant cycle of employees leaving and being replaced by new staff (who often were new grads and thus occasionally were difficult to work with due to the...

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