Careers at KINNECT

Working at KINNECT

Meaningful work, a team that backs you, and a place to grow — with values you can feel in the everyday. Who we are, how we work, what we value, across more than 20 metropolitan and regional offices and hundreds of affiliate clinics.

Why people stay

Culture is everything.

Our culture is built on challenge, candour and a desire to help workers across Australia. We don't lean on a single award to prove it — we'd rather show you the survey rhythm we run, the feedback culture we hold ourselves to, and the people stories that come out the other side.

Our Employee Value Proposition

One EVP, four ways

Meaningful work, a team that backs you, and a place to grow — with values you can feel in the everyday. The four propositions below are the spine of working here, and the sections that follow show each of them in practice.

  • Meaningful work that matters

    Our purpose is helping workers stay well at work, recover when they don't, and return to safe and sustainable jobs. Over 50,000 people each year — real outcomes, not a deck of metrics.

  • Come for the challenge, stay for the people

    People come for the challenge, the variety and the chance to try something different. They stay for the colleagues — direct, supportive, the kind you'd choose — and for a candour culture that doesn't let problems hide for six months.

  • A place to grow your craft

    Progression is decided on the quality of your work and the value you create — not how long you've been here. The Emerging Leaders Program is open to allied health, nursing, admin, finance, marketing and IT alike.

  • Company values lived locally

    Highly Skilled · Happy People · Sustainable Value · No Surprises — interviewed for, measured quarterly through Kulture, and lived in each clinic, on each onsite job and at head office.

Our Story

In 1996, jobs for Exercise Physiologists were scarce. Our founder, Kevin Conlon, started KINNECT straight from university while living in an unairconditioned caravan in North Queensland. He had a simple mission: to help people get back to work and living their best life by combining exercise and education. The caravan is long gone, but KINNECT remains true to those humble roots — helping people is why we come to work every day.

KINNECT founder Kevin Conlon, head-and-shoulders portrait in a KINNECT-branded shirt

Work that matters

Last year we helped over 50,000 people be healthy, safe and productive at work. People come to KINNECT for lots of reasons — the challenge, the opportunity, to progress, to learn, to grow, to try something different. The reason they stay? Our values and our culture.

Our Core Values

What we stand for

Values that guide every decision and shape our culture.

  • 01

    Highly Skilled

    When our people become experts in their area of the business, it makes them more fulfilled, makes our organisation better, and helps us achieve our Why.

  • 02

    Happy People

    When we are happy, we are more productive — and we know that helping others makes us happier and healthier too.

  • 03

    Sustainable Value

    Doing the right thing and making decisions that create long-term social, economic and environmental value matters to our people and our business.

  • 04

    No Surprises

    Clear, open and honest communication is key to building trust. Sharing expectations and addressing challenges early means nothing catches KINNECTers or clients off guard.

Values and culture are inextricably linked

To sustain the culture we want, we only recruit people who are on board with — and live — our Core Values: Highly Skilled, Happy People, Creating Sustainable Value with No Surprises. We're explicit about that during interviews so both sides know what they're signing up to.

A small KINNECT team posed together outdoors by a river

We ask, we listen, we act

Since 2013 we've run a Kulture survey of every employee. In September 2025 we moved to a quarterly cadence so leaders have proper time to act on what people tell us, rather than reacting to a fresh wave of comments every four weeks. Each quarter we ask, leaders read and respond to every comment, and the headline results — and what we're doing about them — are shared with the whole organisation.

Everyone has a role to play

Our Kulture Captain and Kulture Representatives engage with their teams and locations to make sure KINNECTers' voices are heard, address concerns and share ideas across teams. They also champion the fun stuff — local and national social gatherings, charity events and cause-related activities throughout the year.

Four KINNECT team members behind a branded KINNECT stand with ring-toss baskets at the PIEF Conference
What Culture Means to Us

How we show up for each other

Under-told strengths

Things our people tell us we don't say enough

These show up consistently in our Kulture survey and exit conversations. They're not on the careers brochure yet — they should be.

  • Candour, not corporate code

    Feedback here is direct. Managers tell you what they think, peers do too, and you're expected to do the same. The trade-off: when something isn't working, you'll hear about it early — there's nowhere to hide a problem for six months. People who've worked in more polite cultures find this confronting at first, then refuse to go back.

    — Our people
  • No emails when you're on leave

    When you're on annual leave, you're on leave. Out-of-office goes on, work email goes off, your team picks things up. Leaders model this themselves — including the executive team. If you come back to a hundred unread messages it's because we got it wrong, not because that's the standard.

    — Our people
Inside KINNECT

Culture, captured

A look at the rhythm of daily life across our clinics, head office and onsite work.

A KINNECT team member smiling at a desk in front of The KINNECT Way and Strategic Plan posters
Strategy on the wall, not in a drawer
Two KINNECTers in branded shirts collaborating in an open-plan office
Day-to-day collaboration
Two KINNECT clinicians in hi-vis and hard hats reviewing data on a phone at a heavy-industrial site
Onsite with industrial clients
A KINNECT Allied Health consultant in hi-vis on a hilltop above a regional Queensland mine site
Regional client visits
KINNECT clinic reception with Client Specialists greeting a colleague at the front desk
Clinic reception · Client Specialists
A collage of KINNECT culture moments — K Day celebrations, team gatherings and people stories.

What culture looks like here — K Day

Around 30 November each year (KINNECT's Birthday), KINNECTers from around Australia and offshore take time out to let their hair down and celebrate. From sophisticated cocktails and paint-and-sip evenings to mini golf, escape rooms and Sydney Harbour cruises, our teams indulge in fun, frivolity and (of course) food.

Are you ready for the challenge?

Opportunities at KINNECT — view jobs or register your expression of interest.