Camp Nursing Director; RN, NP, DON

Description

Title: Nursing Director

Department: Medical

Reports To: Medical Director

Direct Reports: Nursing Staff

Location: Hybrid/Mt. Gilead, OH

Employment Type: Full-time, exempt

Salary: $90,000-$100,000

Overview: As the Nursing Director, you’ll lead the clinical care that helps campers feel safe, supported, and ready to experience the magic of camp. You’ll build trusted relationships with campers and families while partnering closely with medical volunteers, hospital partners, and colleagues across Flying Horse Farms. Your clinical expertise, leadership, and ability to confidently navigate both everyday and unexpected challenges will shape the camper experience before, during, and after camp.

This is an opportunity to bring your nursing leadership to a place where excellent care and meaningful connection go hand in hand.

Your Impact: Your leadership helps make camp possible for children with serious illnesses and their families. You ensure that campers receive exceptional medical care while creating the confidence and support they need to participate fully in the camp experience. By leading with clinical expertise, compassion, and creativity, you help campers and families trust that their needs will be met, allowing them to focus on what camp is all about: connection, belonging, and being a kid.

Flying Horse Farms is a place where your work connects directly to something meaningful. Together, we create medically-safe camp experiences where kids with serious illnesses can find hope, joy, and belonging—always at no cost.

It takes every role, every team, and an all-in commitment to make the mission possible.

Year Round:

• Provide leadership and oversight of nursing operations, ensuring systems, staffing, resources, and clinical practices are prepared to safely and effectively support camp programs.
• Serve as an active leader across the organization and member of the Camp Operations Team, building strong cross-department partnerships and taking shared ownership for camp-wide readiness, quality, safety, and experience.
• Supervise the Nursing Coordinator and collaborate with the Medical Director in year-round clinical and camp planning.
• Ensure readiness of Well Nest medical facility including inventory of medications, equipment, and supplies ensuring that all are in stock, working order and within expiration dates.
• Develop and maintain nursing and medical protocols in collaboration with the Medical Director.
• Recruit, interview, screen, and train volunteer and seasonal nursing staff
• Medically screen campers with active participation in camper placement processes analyzing camper acuity of sessions.
• Collaborate with the Camp Operations team to prepare for necessary medical adaptations to facilitate camper success.
• Communicate with families on camper status and gathering medical information
• Update, maintain and assure accuracy of medical information in the camper/staff computer database.
• Prepare and distribute medical equipment/supplies (ex: first aid kits, AED’s, etc.) throughout camp and perform equipment checks as needed.
• Build and strengthen relationships with hospital champions and clinicians, including leading small group presentations or attending conferences to spread awareness of camp.
• Be an active member of the Serious Fun Children’s Network medical community

In Camp Sessions:

• Lead in-camp nursing operations, ensuring safe, effective, and well-coordinated care while supervising nursing staff and hosting medical volunteers.
• Serve as a member of the in-session Operations Leadership Team, partnering across departments to anticipate needs, solve complex problems, make real-time operational decisions, and support the success of the overall camp experience.
• Fulfill a role on the emergency staffing…