Private Maternity Nurse & Newborn Care Specialist — Private Family, Riyadh

Medical Staff Talent is appointing a UK & European-trained Private Maternity Nurse to a private family in Riyadh, providing newborn care and post-natal recovery nursing for a member of the family within the private residence.

The appointment begins before the birth and runs through the first months of the child’s life — a single, settled nurse working alongside the family’s obstetric and paediatric consultants and handing over, in time, to the household’s paediatric nursing team.

The Mandate

• Newborn care from birth: feeding support, sleep and settling routines, growth and jaundice surveillance and safe-sleep governance within the nursery.
• Post-natal recovery nursing for the mother in coordination with the visiting obstetric and paediatric consultants.
• Establishing the nursery’s clinical protocols and a structured handover to the household’s paediatric nursing team.
• Absolute discretion under NDA.

Candidate Requirements

• Registered Nurse qualification from a Tier-1 UK or European institution, with current registration (NMC, NMBI or an equivalent European regulator) and either registered midwife status or substantive maternity, neonatal or newborn-care practice.
• Minimum five years’ experience, including substantive newborn and post-natal care in private or high-standing settings.
• Demonstrated discretion in confidential household environments.
• Fluent English.
• Availability to start within six weeks of offer.
• Complete flexibility around the family’s calendar.
• The ability to relocate alone and to travel with the family worldwide, often at short notice.
• Nurses are always placed in pairs — two nurses alternating shifts — to protect continuity of care.

Package

• From €5,000 a month, depending on the appointment
• Private accommodation within the residence and relocation arranged by the family
• Annual leave with flights home and long-term contract stability

Scope of Our Role

Medical Staff Talent introduces and verifies clinicians. The engagement is contracted directly between the family and the clinician, and all local arrangements (visa, licensed entity, coordination with local clinics) remain with the family’s own office and advisers.

What this appointment asks of you

A maternity nurse inside a private family residence is retained for the months in which a family is most exposed and least willing to be seen to be so. The nurse is present for the birth or shortly after it, establishes feeding, sleep and safe-sleep routines, watches growth and jaundice with clinical eyes rather than a nanny’s, supports the mother’s recovery, and briefs the obstetric and paediatric consultants who visit the residence. She also builds the nursery’s protocols and hands them, cleanly, to the household’s paediatric nurses when her season ends. Five years including substantive newborn and post-natal practice is the threshold; the Riyadh household will select for calm, precision and the kind of discretion that leaves no trace.

Reading the package

Base remuneration starts from €5,000 a month, depending on the appointment, and is paid without deduction: there is no personal income tax on employment earnings in Saudi Arabia, which is why a Gulf figure should never be compared line-for-line with a gross UK or European salary.

Because accommodation and flights sit outside the base figure, the practical comparison is with your current net pay after rent, commuting and tax — not with your gross salary. Our note on reading the real numbers behind a tax-free salary walks through that arithmetic.

An end-of-service gratuity accrues for every completed year of service and is settled on departure — see end-of-service gratuity and repatriation for the calculation and the contract clauses that govern it.

Your home-country tax position on departure — split-year treatment for UK residents, exit formalities elsewhere in Europe — is worth settling with an independent cross-border adviser before the first salary lands, and cost of living and net position for Gulf clinicians gives the household-level numbers.

Run your own comparison with the UK versus GCC net position calculator or the Gulf net package estimator; we are happy to walk through the result with you before any interview.

Living in Riyadh

The capital rewards clinicians who arrive with a plan for their time off: the Diplomatic Quarter’s parks and restaurants, the compounds’ pools and sports clubs, Diriyah’s historic district, and a winter calendar of concerts, sport and exhibitions that did not exist a few years ago. Accommodation for a household appointment is provided by the family, within the residence, which removes the largest relocation variable at a stroke.

Direct flights to London take around seven hours; Jeddah and the Red Sea coast are an hour’s flight for a weekend. The cultural adjustment guide covers what nobody puts in the offer letter. Every appointment is single-status: the families we work with require clinicians who relocate alone.

How the search is run

We run this search as a full-cycle search under a retained, confidential mandate. The first conversation is with Vanessa, our Executive Search Lead, and it is a briefing rather than a screening: what the appointment involves day to day, what the household selects for, and whether it fits the life you want. Your CV goes nowhere until you say so.

If you proceed, your credentials are verified, the household is briefed on an anonymised profile, and interviews run by video before an in-person meeting arranged by the family. Offer, NDA and contract are agreed directly between you and the family. The time-to-hire estimator gives realistic timings for a nurse appointment; confidential hiring process and confidentiality, NDA and vetting explain the household’s side of the process.

Related mandates and resources

• Nurses practice: how we appoint nurses to Private Families
• Private duty nurse for a private family
• Ongoing nursing opportunities in Riyadh — register
• Nursing jobs in Riyadh: market overview
• Neonatal and paediatric private duty nursing for private families
• Private duty nursing for private families: the brief
• Nursing salary benchmarks in the Gulf 2026
• Evaluating a nursing job offer in the Gulf
• Live GCC mandates by specialty

Confidential Application

The household is never identified until mutual interest is established. Further detail is available on our Nurses practice page. Submit a confidential profile through the Candidate Portal, or contact us directly.