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Job summary
Beacon Medical Group is looking for an enthusiastic, compassionate, and motivated General Practice Nurse to join our experienced and supportive clinical team. This is an exciting opportunity for a Registered General Nurse (RGN) who is passionate about delivering high-quality patient care in a primary care setting. You will play a key role in promoting health and wellbeing, supporting patients with preventative care, and providing a wide range of nursing services across our practices. If you are looking for a rewarding role where you can make a real difference to patient care while developing your career, we would love to hear from you.
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Main duties of the job
As a General Practice Nurse, you will work collaboratively with GPs, nurses, healthcare assistants, and the wider multidisciplinary team to deliver safe, effective, and patient-centred care. Your responsibilities will include: Running health promotion and well-person clinics. Delivering childhood and adult immunisation programmes. Providing travel health advice and vaccinations. Supporting patients with lifestyle changes including smoking cessation, weight management, exercise, and alcohol awareness. Performing cervical cytology screening. Venepuncture and specimen management. Wound care, dressings, suture removal, and injections. Ear irrigation and ECG recording. Managing minor illness presentations within your competence. Supporting minor surgery clinics where required. Maintaining accurate and contemporaneous clinical records in line with NMC standards. Contributing to quality improvement initiatives and clinical audits. Supporting infection prevention and control standards across the organisation. Identifying and appropriately escalating safeguarding concerns. Independent prescribing responsibilities may be included for suitably qualified candidates. The post holder must be flexible and able to work across multiple Beacon Medical Group sites as required.
About us
Beacon Medical Group Practice is a single practice, Primary Care Network (PCN), providing care to 43,000 patients across Plympton and the South Hams. We are a team of Partners, Salaried GPs, Paramedics, Clinical Pharmacists, Pharmacy Technicians, , Practice and specialist Nurses, HCAs, Phlebotomists, First Contact Physios, Social Prescribers, Advanced Clinical Practitioners, Clinical Practitioners and Administrative support staff.
Our mission is to give all our patients the right care, at the right time, in the right place.
We are a forward thinking partnership always looking for opportunities to improve services for our patients. We have a good reputation for delivering good healthcare, leading at scale and innovating primary care services. This is a really exciting time to be joining us as we diversify our teams, our partnership and services.
If you join our team; you will receive support, opportunities to grow in your role, training, and work with colleagues who care about you.
Details
- Date posted: 13 August 2026
- Pay scheme: Other
- Salary: £19.46 an hour
- Contract: Permanent
- Working pattern: Part-time
- Reference number: A1739-26-0040
- Job locations: Mudge Way, Plymouth, PL7 1AD, United Kingdom
Job responsibilities
You will be working as a General Practice Nurse providing a high level of care for patients in accordance with the guidelines of the UKCC Code of Professional Practice and the Scope of Professional Conduct.
This is a varied role and will be based across our six GP practices.
A full job description for this position is attached in supporting documents.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Person specification
Skills
Essential
- Excellent Interpersonal skills
- Work under own initiative but recognise when to ask for help.
- Scrupulous attention to confidentiality
- Be able to follow guidelines and protocols
- Understand the importance and relevance of health promotion in the community
- Team player
- Good communication skills both verbal and in writing
- Flexible approach to work
- Accurate keyboard/data entry skills
- Ability to prioritise and plan own workload
- Problem solving skill
- Accurate and methodical approach
- Recognise own development needs and recognise how these may be met
Experience
Essential
- Working in a medical environment
- Provision of health care advice and information
- Clinically based knowledge
- Understanding of medical terminology
- Knowledge of the NHS and its service provision Knowledge of day-to-day health issues
Desirable
- Working within General Practice
- Participation in quality initiatives such as audit
- Experience in chronic disease management and/or Well Woman
- Independent prescriber
- SystmOne user
- ICE
Qualifications
Essential
- Evidence of a good general standard of education
- Appropriate Nursing Qualification
- NMC PIN Number
- Good IT skills
The Groups Values
Essential
- The candidate must demonstrate an understanding of our values.
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This advert is for General Practice Nurse with Beacon Medical Group in Mudge Way, Plymouth, PL7 1AD, United Kingdom, United Kingdom. It is listed as a Nurse (adult and children) role. The advertised salary is £19.46. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 03 Sep 2026.
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