Consultant Paediatrician — Private Family, Riyadh

Medical Staff Talent is appointing a UK & European-trained Consultant Paediatrician to a private family in Riyadh, providing continuity paediatric care for the children of the family from a private clinical suite within the residence.

The appointment carries clinical leadership of the household’s paediatric care — developmental surveillance, immunisation governance, acute presentations and the coordination of visiting sub-specialists — for a small number of children who will come to know their physician well.

The Mandate

• Continuity general paediatric care for the children of the household: developmental surveillance, immunisation governance and the management of acute presentations within the residence.
• Clinical lead for the household’s paediatric and neonatal nurses — protocols, escalation pathways and medication governance.
• Coordination of visiting paediatric sub-specialists, diagnostics and any hospital episode, so that the children’s medicine is joined up rather than episodic.
• Absolute discretion under NDA.

Candidate Requirements

• CCT in Paediatrics, or an equivalent European specialist certification (Facharzt für Kinder- und Jugendmedizin or the equivalent European fellowship), from a Tier-1 UK or European institution.
• Minimum seven years post-certification consultant-grade practice, including substantive general and acute paediatrics.
• 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.

Package

• £270,000 – £350,000 per annum, tax-free and liquid
• 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

Paediatrics for one family, delivered from a private clinical suite rather than a hospital ward. The consultant is the children’s physician in the fullest sense: the routine developmental checks and immunisation schedule, the middle-of-the-night fever, the referral that must be made quietly and quickly, and the standing brief to the parents on what is normal and what is not. The household’s paediatric and neonatal nurses look to the consultant for protocol and escalation, and visiting sub-specialists are coordinated around the children rather than the other way round. Seven years of consultant-grade practice with substantive acute exposure is the threshold. The Riyadh household will select for calm judgement, evidence-led candour with the parents, and the discretion a private family demands.

Reading the package

Base remuneration for this appointment is £270,000 – £350,000 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.

Private accommodation within the residence, transport and flights are provided in addition to base; before signing, confirm how indemnity will be arranged and 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 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.

What happens when you apply

The household has retained us exclusively, which shapes how the search runs: there is no agency panel and no CV database. Vanessa, our Executive Search Lead, holds a confidential briefing call with every candidate we take forward — the appointment in detail, the household’s expectations and the life around the post — before anything is committed to paper.

From there the sequence is fixed: dossier and credential verification, an anonymised profile to the family office with your written authorisation, video interviews, an in-person meeting arranged by the household, then offer, NDA and a contract agreed directly with the family. The time-to-hire estimator shows what each stage takes for a physician appointment; confidential hiring process and confidentiality, NDA and vetting explain the household’s side.

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 paediatric standard for private families: securing UK & European expertise for the next generation
• Neonatal and paediatric private duty nursing for private families
• GCC physician salary trends 2026
• Questions that protect your career when a family office hires you
• Live GCC mandates by specialty

Confidential Application

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