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Maritime career tool

Maritime CV builder for ship, offshore and remote clinicians

For doctors, nurses and paramedics applying to cruise, expedition, offshore and remote-site posts. Choose a target role, add your experience, and get a CV summary, role-specific bullet points, a LinkedIn headline and a cover letter opening you can copy or print. Applying for a hospital or ambulance post? Use the Career Hub routes for doctors, nurses and paramedics instead.

Your entries stay on this page. The draft is assembled by JavaScript in your browser. This page has no form that submits anywhere: what you type is not sent to The Ship Doctor, not written to cookies, local storage or session storage, and the fields are marked so browsers do not offer to remember them. If you have accepted analytics, one event records that a draft was generated, without your entries or the role you chose. Reloading or closing the page clears everything, so copy or print the draft before you leave.

Your maritime CV draft

Candidate Details

Professional Summary

Role-Specific Bullet Points

    LinkedIn Headline

    Cover Letter Opening

    Prefer to write it by hand? A printable CV outline
    1. Name and contact details
    2. Target role: for example cruise ship doctor, cruise nurse, expedition doctor, offshore medic, remote site doctor or maritime public health officer.
    3. Current profession and title
    4. Registration and credentials: regulator, registration status and any restrictions.
    5. Emergency and acute experience: months by setting and level of independence.
    6. Certificates with expiry dates: STCW, ALS/ACLS, ATLS, PHTLS, seafarer medical.
    7. Maritime and remote skills: structured handover, oxygen planning, medevac coordination, outbreak management, telemedicine.
    8. Languages
    9. A two-line cover letter opening: why this setting, and the independent decision you are proudest of.

    Detailed examples by role: the ship doctor CV template and offshore medic CV template.

    Worked example

    One example draft: an ED nurse applying for a cruise nurse post

    Alex Morgan is fictional. These are the entries the "Fill in the fictional example" button uses, and the draft the builder makes from them. Replace every detail with your own and check certificate names and expiry dates against the employer's list.

    What was entered

    Target role
    Cruise Ship Nurse
    Current profession
    Emergency Department Staff Nurse
    Credentials
    BSc (Hons) Adult Nursing, registered nurse (example registration)
    Experience
    Four years in a busy adult ED including resus, majors and triage; two years as nurse in charge on night shifts.
    Certificates
    ALS, ILS, PHTLS, STCW basic safety (example)
    Maritime skills
    structured SBAR handover, oxygen planning for long transfers
    Languages
    English (native), Spanish (conversational)

    What the builder produced

    Professional summary. Experienced Emergency Department Staff Nurse seeking a position as Cruise Ship Nurse. Skilled in acute patient assessment, emergency triage, IV therapy, medication administration and clinical observation in high-acuity settings. Prepared to work as part of a small medical team in an isolated maritime environment, supporting the ship doctor with emergency response, documentation, patient monitoring and outbreak management. Certifications include ALS, ILS, PHTLS, STCW basic safety (example). Maritime-specific skills: structured SBAR handover, oxygen planning for long transfers. Languages: English (native), Spanish (conversational).

    LinkedIn headline. Emergency Department Staff Nurse | Seeking Cruise Ship Nursing Role | Acute Care | Emergency Nursing | Maritime Medicine

    Cover letter opening. I am writing to express my interest in the Ship Nurse position. As a Emergency Department Staff Nurse with acute care and emergency nursing experience, I am prepared to contribute to a small, high-performing medical team operating in an isolated maritime environment where clinical judgement, documentation rigour and emergency readiness are critical.

    Edit before you send it. The builder joins fixed sentences to your words, so read it aloud: here "As a Emergency" needs to become "As an Emergency". Add numbers only you can supply (years, settings, team size), and remove any skill you cannot evidence at interview.

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    Important Disclaimer The Ship Doctor does not represent employers, recruiters or cruise lines and does not guarantee job availability, interviews or employment. This tool is educational. Each employer handles its own applications; always check requirements with the employer or the relevant regulator.