Consultant Physician — Private Household, Dubai

Medical Staff Talent is appointing a UK-trained Consultant Physician to a permanent, full-time mandate within a private household in Dubai.

This is a continuity appointment, not rotational cover. The successful clinician becomes the principal medical point of contact for the family, leading clinical assessment, optimising chronic conditions, coordinating specialist referral, and travelling with the household where required.

The Mandate

• Sole clinical responsibility for the principal and immediate family, with specialist referral coordinated through Dubai’s leading private institutions.
• Proactive and preventative medicine — annual screening architecture, longevity protocols, and continuous health oversight rather than episodic treatment.
• Complete clinical autonomy, with unconstrained access to diagnostics and onward referral.
• Discretion as an operating condition. The mandate is routed under NDA from first contact.

Candidate Requirements

• Full registration with the General Medical Council, with a licence to practise in good standing.
• CCT or CCST in General Internal Medicine, General Practice or a closely allied specialty.
• Substantial post-certification consultant experience.
• Demonstrable judgement in high-confidentiality settings. Prior private household, executive health or concierge medicine experience is an advantage but not a prerequisite.
• Willingness to travel with the household.

Package

• £240,000 per annum, tax-free and paid net.
• Accommodation, transport, medical cover and annual repatriation structured separately from base salary.
• The DHA licensing route mapped, with guidance at every step — see Gulf Healthcare Licensing Support.

What this appointment asks of you

A continuity appointment rather than rotational cover: the consultant becomes the principal medical point of contact for the family, leading clinical assessment, optimising chronic conditions, coordinating specialist referral through Dubai’s leading private institutions and travelling with the household where required. The medicine is proactive — annual screening architecture, longevity protocols, continuous oversight — and the autonomy is complete, with unconstrained access to diagnostics and onward referral. Full GMC registration with a CCT or CCST in general internal medicine, general practice or an allied specialty is required; prior private household, executive health or concierge experience is an advantage rather than a prerequisite. Judgement in high-confidentiality settings is what the interview will test.

Licensing sequence: DHA, Dubai

The regulator in Dubai is the Dubai Health Authority (DHA); applications run through the Sheryan portal and the route for this appointment 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 with a complete dossier.
• DHA eligibility assessment: Tier-1 specialist certification generally exempts you from the DHA assessment, and consultant-grade eligibility follows the verified CV.
• Issue of the eligibility letter, then licence activation under the licensed private medical entity associated with the household, followed by the residence visa and Emirates ID.
• 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 DHA eligibility inside eight to twelve weeks. Our DHA licensing guide walks through each stage, registration versus licence explains why the eligibility letter is not yet a licence, and licensing for private residences explains how a household appointment is sponsored. GMC specialist registration and the value of a CCT or CCST cover the physician-specific checks.

Reading the package

Base remuneration for this appointment is from £240,000 per annum, paid without deduction: there is no personal income tax on employment earnings in the UAE, 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 Dubai

The city is easy to arrive in and easy to leave from, which matters when a household travels as much as this one: Dubai International sits twenty minutes from most of the city and flies direct to London, Zurich, Athens and the main European hubs. Accommodation for the appointment is provided by the family, which removes the one part of Dubai relocation that is genuinely difficult.

For days off there is the coast, the desert, the sporting calendar and a restaurant scene that is now among the best in the world. Families will want our Dubai districts and school catchments guide for catchments and commuting, the international school fees benchmark for fees, and the cultural adjustment guide for the unwritten rules.

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, the licensing route and the life around the post — before anything is committed to paper.

From there the sequence is fixed: dossier and licensing check, 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 contract before licensing fees are incurred. 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 Dubai — register
• Doctor jobs in Dubai: market overview
• 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

Candidates are briefed individually. The household is never identified until mutual interest is established and confidentiality documentation is in place. For the full picture of how these appointments work, see Private Doctor for a Private Family.

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