Senior Consultant in Internal Medicine & Critical Care — Private Family, Riyadh

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Medical Staff Talent

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

Medical Staff Talent is appointing a dual-certified Senior Consultant in Internal Medicine and Critical Care to a private family’s medical office in Riyadh.

The post combines acute intervention with long-term preventative stewardship for the members of a private family. It demands clinical vigilance, immediate diagnostic accuracy and the coordination of complex medical logistics across international specialist networks.

The Mandate

  • Oversight of a dedicated private medical suite with emergency and diagnostic infrastructure.
  • Continuous health optimisation of household principals under diplomatic protocol.
  • Direct coordination with international medical networks for specialist advisory integration.
  • Absolute confidentiality under non-negotiable NDAs.

Candidate Requirements

  • Tier-1 board certification in Internal Medicine — CCT/CCST or an equivalent European fellowship — ideally with Intensive Care or Anaesthesia sub-specialisation.
  • Minimum seven years post-consultancy in UK or European teaching hospitals or private family medical units.
  • Mastery of professional discretion and protocol.
  • Adaptability to high-stakes decision-making and cross-border coordination.
  • Eligibility for SCFHS licensing.

Package

  • £300,000 – £380,000 per annum, tax-free and liquid, distributed without local deductions.
  • Fully serviced family estate villa within a secure diplomatic sector.
  • Private chauffeured vehicle, global malpractice indemnity, state-of-the-art diagnostic procurement.
  • Executive leave with fully funded first-class repatriation flights.
  • SCFHS licensing and Dataflow verification guided at every step — see Gulf Healthcare Licensing Support.

What this appointment asks of you

Dual capability is the point of this appointment: acute intervention when a member of the family deteriorates, and long-term preventative stewardship of their health in the years between. The consultant oversees a dedicated private suite with emergency and diagnostic infrastructure, coordinates with international specialist networks for advisory input, and maintains a continuous programme of health optimisation for the principals under diplomatic protocol. Internal medicine certification with intensive care or anaesthesia sub-specialisation is the ideal profile because the physician must be equally credible at the bedside of an unstable patient and in a considered discussion about cardiovascular risk. Seven years post-consultancy is the minimum; cross-border coordination is part of the job.

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 £300,000 – £380,000 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.

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

Process

The household is never identified until mutual interest is established. See our Doctors practice.

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

To apply for this job please visit medicalstafftalent.com.

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