Private Duty Nurse — Neonatal & Paediatric Coverage, Private Family, Doha

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  • Travelling
  • Doha, Qatar
  • 5000 GBP / Month

Medical Staff Talent

Private Medical Recruitment for the Gulf | UK & European Trained Specialists

Medical Staff Talent is appointing a UK & European-trained Private Duty Nurse to a private family in Doha, for confidential, high-fidelity live-in care including neonatal and paediatric coverage.

The Mandate

A discreet, permanent placement within a private family environment, demanding absolute discretion and clinical precision. Coverage spans neonatal and paediatric care alongside broader residential nursing duties.

Requirements

  • Registered Nurse with current registration with your UK or European regulator, in good standing
  • Minimum 5 years’ private duty, neonatal or paediatric experience
  • Registration in a Tier-1 UK or European system (UK, Ireland, or an accepted European jurisdiction)
  • Strict NDA compliance
  • 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 household accommodation
  • Relocation arranged by the family
  • Annual leave with flights home

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

The remit spans the youngest members of a private family — neonatal care in the early months, paediatric nursing as the children grow — alongside general residential nursing for the family. That breadth is the point: the household wants one clinician who can move from a newborn’s feeding plan to a toddler’s febrile illness to a parent’s travel medicine without changing tempo. You will coordinate closely with visiting paediatric and neonatal consultants, keep immaculate records, and manage the small, permanent rhythm of a home rather than the churn of a ward. Nurses who have combined special care baby unit or paediatric experience with private duty work will recognise the shape of the role immediately.

How the package is structured

The package starts from €5,000 a month, depending on the appointment. It is a gross salary, agreed directly with the family and paid into the bank account of your choice. Take advice from your own tax adviser on whether the income is taxable in your circumstances.

Accommodation and flights are provided in addition to base, which is what makes the net position so different from a UK or European salary: with housing and travel carried by the household, most of the base figure is savings capacity. Health insurance in Gulf contracts explains the cover clauses worth reading twice.

If you are leaving the UK part-way through a tax year, split-year treatment under the Statutory Residence Test usually applies; keep a day-count from the date you leave and take advice from an independent cross-border adviser; wealth preservation for Gulf clinicians sets out the planning points.

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

Living in Doha

Doha is compact, calm and well organised: West Bay and The Pearl for waterfront living, Lusail as the new city to the north, Msheireb’s restored downtown, Education City’s universities and a cultural offer led by the Museum of Islamic Art and the National Museum. Household appointments include accommodation provided by the family — private quarters within the residence — so relocation is about settling in rather than searching.

Winters are pleasant and outdoor; summers are hot and humid. Hamad International flies direct to London and the European hubs in around seven hours. Every appointment is single-status — the families we work with require clinicians who relocate alone — and the cultural adjustment guide covers the adjustments worth anticipating.

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

Confidential Application

Applications are reviewed by our Executive Search Lead and handled under strict NDA. Further detail is available on our Nurses practice page.

To apply for this job please visit medicalstafftalent.com.

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