Your vet career in Germany starts here
Home-visit and surgical vet jobs with time for your patients. We support you with your diploma recognition, relocation and advanced language courses, from your first contact to your first house call.
What makes us different
Why home visits?
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Time
Time for your patients
6 to 8 home visits a day instead of a busy clinic schedule. That leaves enough time to get to know each animal, examine it thoroughly and explain everything to its owner. And you see what stays hidden in a practice: the stairs, the litter box, the food bowl. Because good medicine takes time.
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Work Planning
Your schedule fits your life
You help shape your own shift plan, and your preferences go straight into it. Family, hobbies or simply free evenings: your life outside of work gets the space it needs. Because only those who have time can truly be there for others.
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Trust
You are the decision maker
Your diagnosis, your treatment. We use first names, keep hierarchies flat, and your professional judgement counts. When you need advice, more than 120 vets across Germany have your back. Because trust is the basis of good teamwork.
New to Germany?
We’ll help you get started
So you can focus on veterinary medicine, not paperwork.
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Recognition and permits
A specialised agency guides you through every bureaucratic step, and we cover the costs.
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Relocation
We offer a relocation budget to cover your move or your first temporary accommodation.
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Veterinary German course
Once you’ve joined felmo, we cover an advanced German course designed for vets, so you can talk to pet owners with confidence.
Where can you work?
In more than 30 locations
Choose the city that suits you: on home visits as a mobile vet or in surgery at one of our practices.
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On the road in your city
- With your felmo car, you visit patients in your city and the surrounding area, on planned routes and predictable schedule.
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In surgery at our practices
- In Berlin, Bochum and Frankfurt, you operate in modern, well-equipped practices. More are opening in the coming months.
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One team, start to finish
- Check-ups and diagnosis at home, surgery in the practice, aftercare back at home. One record, one team, from first visit to final check-up.
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We help you choose
- New to Germany? We’ll help you find the city that suits you and your plans, and support your move.
Your benefits
What you can count on
Standard for every vet on our team, not a perk you have to negotiate.
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No night shifts
No night shifts, no Sunday or public holiday work and no on-call duty. Exception: locations where the veterinary chamber requires emergency service.
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27 to 30 days off
27 days in your first year, plus one more for every year at felmo, up to 30.
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Full-time or part-time
You decide how much you work, with full benefits either way.
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Start-up costs covered
We pay for applications and fees. For your move, you also get a relocaiton budget upon agreement.
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Company car
Private use of company cars is possible. In this case, you don’t need a car of your own. Fuel for up to 10,000 private km is included.
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Training budget
Up to €3,000 a year, plus 5 paid vacation days for courses of your choice.
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Bonuses
Extra pay for Saturday shifts and for smaller operations on home visits.
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Predictable shifts
Your shifts are set four months in advance, so you can plan holidays and family time with confidence.
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Less paperwork
One digital record for the whole treatment journey. AI handles part of the admin, so you have more time for your patients.
And there’s more
The little extras that make a difference.
- Feedback and salary review at least every six months
- Regular team time: meetings every two weeks, breakfasts and events
- For your own pets: up to 50% off food, plus medication and lab work at cost
- €150 a year towards your workwear
- Save on sports, travel and more with discounts from our partners
From doorstep to operating room, and back
The felmo hybrid model
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Two paths, one system
Most practices stop where their possibilities end. Home visits reach a limit, and an outside clinic doesn’t know the patient. At felmo, it’s different: our mobile vets diagnose and treat on site, our surgical practices in Berlin, Bochum and Frankfurt take over whatever goes beyond that, and afterwards the mobile team takes care of aftercare again.
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What this means for you
Whatever your role: one record follows the entire treatment journey, with no lost information and no paperwork. Mobile vets and surgeons exchange ideas and learn from each other, so your network reaches beyond your own field. And your path stays open: at felmo, you have opportunities to grow professionally.
Still unsure?
You won’t be on your own
How our trainee programme works.
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Paid and at your pace
- Depending on your experience, you ride along with experienced colleagues for up to 6 paid weeks. You start on your own when you’re ready.
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Learning the German system
- On real home visits, you learn how things work in Germany: the app, the routes and surprises like traffic or longer appointments.
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A clear training plan
- Our Medical Training & Development team supports you with a training path, SOPs and workshops, for example on neutering.
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Support afterwards too
- After the programme, vet support is available by phone and chat, and your People Lead stays by your side.
Your path to felmo
Our application process
Get to know us and our model step by step before you decide.
First-hand: vets share their stories
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Vet, Hamburg
Umut Özünlü
A friend recommended felmo, and after two online interviews I came to Germany for a trial day. After that, I only had to hand in my documents: felmo and a partner took care of my visa, residence permit and registration. Julia in particular was always there for me.
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Vet, Berlin
Carolin Hobler
felmo appointments are real adventures, and every situation is different. As a vet, you’re so much closer to your patients’ reality than in a practice, and that lets you solve problems in a truly lasting way, on every level.
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Vet, Leipzig
Stefanie Manecke
I used to think home visits were mostly booked for euthanasia. Now I know how many pet owners find getting to a practice a real hurdle, and how much stress a home visit saves the animals.
Ready? Apply in under a minute.
Häufige Fragen
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You need German at B2 level with a certificate, e.g. from Goethe, telc or ÖSD, before we can make you an offer. You don’t need a specialist language exam like in human medicine. Once you start, we pay for a veterinary German course.
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If you studied in the EU, the EEA or Switzerland, your degree is recognised automatically. If you studied elsewhere, the authorities check whether your degree is equivalent, sometimes followed by a knowledge test. You can apply from your home country. A specialised agency supports you throughout, and we cover the costs.
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It depends on your nationality, not where you studied. With an EU, EEA or Swiss passport, you don’t. Otherwise, you usually need a visa, for example the EU Blue Card. We’ll work out the right route with you.
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With an EU degree, you need your licence to practise (Approbation), which usually takes about three months. If you studied outside the EU, a temporary work permit can let you start earlier.
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With an EU degree, it usually takes three to four months from your offer to your first day.
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For your move or a first temporary flat, you get a relocation budget by arrangement. We also help you with registration and paperwork.
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As a mobile vet, yes, because you drive to your patients in your felmo car. In surgery, you work at one of our practices, so it isn’t required. An EU driving licence is valid in Germany without conversion.
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It depends on your role. On home visits, you start your day at your felmo car and visit 6 to 8 patients on a planned route in your city. In surgery, you work at one of our practices: planned procedures, diagnostics and consultations, often with cases coming straight from home visits. In both roles, you meet your team every two weeks.
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Dogs and cats.
