Consultant in Family Medicine & Longevity — Private Family Estate, Riyadh

Medical Staff Talent is appointing a UK & European-trained Consultant in Family Medicine and Longevity to a private family’s medical office in Riyadh.

The mandate is built for a physician who wants clinical continuity rather than throughput. The patient panel is exclusive and highly restricted; the facility is a state-of-the-art private domestic suite inside a private family residence.

The Mandate

• Complete clinical autonomy over hyper-customised preventative and longevity protocols.
• An exclusive, restricted patient panel — depth of relationship over volume of consultation.
• Collaborative leadership of a handpicked, UK & European-trained team of physiotherapists, private duty nurses and nutritionists.
• Design of proactive wellness strategy and advanced ageing-reversal pathways.
• Operation under diplomatic protocol and non-negotiable NDAs.

Candidate Requirements

• Tier-1 board certification — CCT/CCST or equivalent Nordic/European designation.
• Minimum six years post-consultancy experience.
• Depth in clinical longevity pathways, preventative therapeutics and chronic disease optimisation.
• Professional diplomacy and absolute discretion.
• Eligibility for SCFHS licensing.

Package

• £310,000 – £385,000 per annum, fully tax-free and liquid, paid without regional deductions.
• Fully serviced luxury villa within a secure diplomatic sector or family compound.
• Worldwide malpractice insurance, all international work travel covered, guidance through every licensing procedure.
• Executive leave structure with first-class return flights to the country of origin.
• SCFHS licensing and Dataflow verification guided at every step — see Gulf Healthcare Licensing Support.

What this appointment asks of you

Clinical continuity rather than throughput is the design principle. The consultant holds complete clinical autonomy over hyper-customised preventative and longevity protocols for an exclusive, restricted patient panel, and leads a handpicked team of physiotherapists, private duty nurses and nutritionists in delivering them from a state-of-the-art domestic suite. The medicine is proactive: chronic disease optimisation, preventative therapeutics, structured screening, and the honest evaluation of longevity interventions as evidence evolves. Six years post-consultancy with depth in clinical longevity pathways is the requirement. The household will look for a physician who leads collaboratively, communicates risk precisely to informed principals and treats diplomatic protocol as second nature.

Licensing sequence: SCFHS, Saudi Arabia

The Kingdom’s regulator is the Saudi Commission for Health Specialties (SCFHS), and every step runs through its Mumaris Plus platform. For this appointment the route is:

• DataFlow primary source verification of your primary medical degree, specialist certification (CCT, CCST, Facharzt or the equivalent European fellowship), current registration, certificate of good standing and experience letters — typically four to eight weeks when the dossier is complete on submission.
• SCFHS professional classification, which sets your title and grade; Tier-1 specialist certification normally classifies at Consultant grade, which removes the assessment requirement for most physicians.
• Professional registration and licence issuance, followed by the work visa, the medical fitness examination and the iqama (residency permit) on arrival.
• Household onboarding: NDA execution, accommodation, banking and the practical steps we coordinate with the family office before your first day.

With a complete dossier on day one we usually see SCFHS eligibility inside ten to fourteen weeks; the visa and residency stage then runs in parallel with relocation planning. Our notes on SCFHS and Mumaris Plus in 2026 and on the DataFlow workflow set out what to prepare, and good-standing certificates explains the one document that most often delays a file. Consultants should also read Saudi medical licensing for consultants.

Reading the package

Base remuneration for this appointment is £310,000 – £385,000 per annum, 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.

Villa or residence accommodation, transport, health cover and flights are provided in addition to base, and indemnity is arranged by the household; before signing, read the policy territory and the run-off provision — medical liability in the UAE and Saudi Arabia sets out the questions to ask.

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 before the first salary lands; we introduce candidates to a cross-border adviser, 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, usually on the estate or in a compound they select, 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. Our Riyadh districts and compounds guide covers districts, compounds and commuting in detail, the Gulf family relocation brief explains schooling and spousal employment, and the cultural adjustment guide covers what nobody puts in the offer letter.

How we run this search

Every appointment of this kind follows the same discipline. It begins with a confidential briefing call with Vanessa, our Executive Search Lead, covering your clinical profile, your motivations and your family situation; nothing is written down that you have not agreed to share. Your dossier is then reviewed against the licensing route above so that we know, before anyone else is involved, whether your file will classify cleanly.

The household or its family office is briefed anonymously. Your name and documents are shared only with your written authorisation, first-stage interviews are held by video, and a final meeting is arranged in person — usually with travel organised by the household. Offer, NDA and contract follow, and licensing and mobilisation begin the same week. Our time-to-hire estimator shows how long each stage takes; the confidential hiring process and confidentiality, NDA and vetting pages explain how the household side is governed.

Related mandates and resources

• Doctors practice: how we appoint physicians to Private Families
• Private doctor for a private family
• Ongoing physician opportunities in Riyadh — register
• Doctor jobs in Riyadh: market overview
• The longevity mandate in elite private care
• The private concierge physician retainer for private families
• GCC physician salary trends 2026
• Questions that protect your career when a family office hires you
• Live GCC mandates by specialty

Process

The household is never identified until mutual interest is established. See our Doctors practice for context on how these appointments are structured.

Submit a confidential profile through the Candidate Portal, or contact us directly.