Private Duty Nurse — Onboard Wellness, Mediterranean (Private Yacht)

A private Gulf family is seeking a UK & European-trained Private Duty Nurse for a permanent, onboard role aboard a private yacht cruising the Mediterranean’s most exclusive coastal enclaves. The position covers discreet health management and preventative wellness care for family members at sea, in a setting where the treatment room moves with the client.

The Mandate

Deliver discreet, one-to-one wellness and preventative health monitoring for the household while onboard, coordinating closely with the family’s wider medical team ashore. Absolute discretion, adaptability and composure under changing onboard conditions are essential to this high-fidelity engagement.

Requirements

• UK & European-trained Registered Nurse, 5+ years’ post-qualification experience in private duty or residential care
• Current registration with your UK or European regulator, in good standing
• Fluent English essential
• Strict NDA compliance and total professional discretion mandatory
• Comfortable working at sea, with genuine adaptability to a mobile care environment
• 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 onboard cabin and relocation to the point of embarkation arranged by the family
• Seasonal Mediterranean routing with flights home between charters

Scope of Our Role

Many of the households commissioning this kind of appointment base themselves in the Gulf outside the Mediterranean season. 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

Onboard wellness nursing for a private family at sea: discreet one-to-one health monitoring, preventative care routines, management of minor presentations, medication and medical locker governance, and close coordination with the family’s medical team ashore. The treatment room moves with the client through the Mediterranean’s most exclusive coastal enclaves, which means adaptability — to a confined space, to changing ports, to the rhythm of a crew — is as important as clinical skill. Five years of private duty or residential experience is required, along with a genuine comfort with life at sea. Flights home between charters and a private cabin are part of the structure; composure and absolute discretion are part of the job.

Registration and sea-readiness

Onboard appointments follow the law of the vessel’s flag state and, within territorial waters or in port, that of the coastal state. The family’s office confirms the framework for each itinerary. When you travel with the family, all local arrangements (visa, licensed entity, coordination with local clinics) remain with the family’s own office and advisers. In practice the sequence is:

• Home registration in good standing (GMC, NMC, HCPC or your European regulator) with a current certificate of good standing.
• STCW basic safety training and a seafarer medical certificate (ENG1 or the national equivalent), which most management companies require before embarkation; maritime medical training is valued.
• Onboarding with the household and the captain: NDA execution, cabin allocation, medical locker and inventory handover, and the evacuation protocols for the season’s itinerary.

Our notes on maritime governance for onboard clinicians, superyacht medical staffing and how Gulf households staff their vessels explain what to prepare before the season. Nurses should also read yacht nurse appointments in the Mediterranean.

How the package is structured

Remuneration starts from €5,000 a month, depending on the appointment, and is quoted gross, with a private cabin and flights home between charters provided by the household; living costs at sea are close to nil, which is why onboard appointments build savings faster than the headline figure suggests.

The salary is agreed directly between the family and the clinician. Your personal tax position depends on your residence status and the days you spend in any one country during the season, so take advice from an independent cross-border adviser before signing; wealth preservation for Gulf clinicians and reading the real numbers set out the questions to settle first.

Insurance is the other line to read carefully — the vessel’s policy, your own indemnity and repatriation cover — and our insurance and liability resources list what to ask the management company for.

Life on board and between charters

Life on board follows the season: the Côte d’Azur, the Balearics, Sardinia and the Amalfi coast, the Greek islands, with the itinerary set by the family and the vessel’s programme. Between charters there are flights home; during them there is a private cabin, a crew that runs to a high standard, and the discipline of a small, close community. Many of the households commissioning these appointments base themselves in the Gulf outside the Mediterranean season, and the shore months are often spent there.

Our notes on a clinical career on the Mediterranean circuit and how Gulf households staff their vessels describe the rhythm of the year. Every appointment is single-status, with accommodation provided by the household aboard and ashore.

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 the Mediterranean — register
• The longevity mandate in elite private care
• Private yacht medical staffing for Gulf households
• Nursing salary benchmarks in the Gulf 2026
• Evaluating a nursing job offer in the Gulf
• Live GCC mandates by specialty

Confidential Application

To apply in confidence, visit our Nurses page. All enquiries are handled under strict confidentiality by David Vilchez, Founder & CEO.