Founded by ED-experienced doctors who left the hospital system without leaving the medicine behind.
Kinkaya is a purpose-built urgent care for kids and young adults in Innaloo, founded by two clinicians whose careers were built primarily in ED. We hire on what you can do — not on what you finished.
Who we are looking for.
You’re a GP. You started in ED. Some part of you is still there.
Perhaps you enjoy being a GP but miss certain aspects of ED — acuity, procedures, working in a team.
Your training path was probably non-linear. The reasons are yours — they’re not something we’ll ask you to justify, and they’re not what we hire on.
What matters to us is what you can do at the bedside. The triage instincts you trained for years to build. The way you think about an undifferentiated patient. The procedures you used to do without thinking. We know it’s easy to lose confidence in these skills when they haven’t been practiced for a while. We also know they come back.
We recognise the unique value of clinicians with experience in both GP and ED environments. Kinkaya allows you to practice these complementary skill sets, while giving you the opportunity to refresh and renew ED and procedural skills that may have gotten a little dusty in your time away from the hospital environment.
We’re Drs Smriti Shah and Justin Withnall — two clinicians who worked primarily in ED before founding Kinkaya. We built it because we wanted to keep practicing the medicine we trained for, without the system that came with it. Whatever brought you from ED to GP, you’ll find a team here with journeys not unlike your own.
Key criteria
A Fellowed GP (FRACGP or FACRRM, or recognised equivalent via the Specialist Pathway) with at least six months of ED experience at some point in your career. Career stage doesn’t matter — what matters is the ED time in your history and the appetite to use it again.
Patient First Culture
Patient outcomes, not patient numbers focussed.
Flexible schedules
To meet your unique needs and lifestyle.
Development & progression
Initiatives tailored to each team member.
Purpose-built facilities
New equipment & excellent team amenities.
What we offer
You’d use your full breadth — paediatrics, undifferentiated acuity, fractures, lacerations, procedures, the cases where someone has to make the call. This is not a GP practice with an x-ray machine. We offer on-site x-ray, pathology, a fracture clinic, paediatric-trained nurses, and paediatrician access. We have the infrastructure to follow up and finish each case, and a team that means you’re not standing alone with a sick kid.
- On-site x-ray, daily
- On-site pathology
- Fracture clinic
- Paediatric-trained nurses
- Paediatrician access
- Procedure-equipped rooms
We’d rather you come and try the work before you commit to anything.