Nurse Manager II; RN - Acute Care Pediatrics

Overview

Children’s Hospital of Richmond at VCU (CHoR) is seeking an experienced and visionary Nurse Manager II to lead the launch of Acute Care Pediatrics 11, a brand-new pediatric unit opening January 2027. This is an opportunity to staff and lead a unit from the ground up within a nationally recognized academic children’s hospital.

You will be instrumental in recruiting and building a high-performing nursing team, establishing unit culture, and driving clinical and operational readiness in advance of opening day. You will partner with nursing leadership, educators, physicians, and operational teams to execute a phased staffing strategy that supports hiring, onboarding, competency development, and workflow design—ensuring a strong foundation for long-term success.

Acute Care Pediatrics 11 will be a 24-bed pediatric unit caring for surgical patients across trauma, burn, and general surgery, with telemetry monitoring in both general care and step-down settings. The unit will also include epilepsy monitoring services, accredited by the National Association of Epilepsy Centers, delivering advanced seizure management through continuous video and EEG monitoring.

At CHoR, nurse leaders join a mission-driven academic medical center known for exceptional pediatric outcomes, innovation, and interdisciplinary collaboration. Leaders are supported by robust professional development, access to specialty expertise, and the opportunity to make a meaningful, lasting impact on children and families throughout the region.

The Nurse Manager II is accountable for delivering high-quality, family-centered care by ensuring appropriate staffing levels, skill mix, and clinical competencies. This leader fosters a healthy, healing, and respectful environment for patients, families, visitors, and staff while promoting engagement, accountability, and a culture of excellence. Additional responsibilities include partnering with interdisciplinary teams to deliver outstanding service; supporting environmental control planning; coordinating materials management;

and overseeing daily unit operations to ensure safety, efficiency, and quality outcomes.

The Nurse Manager II ensures excellent patient care by a nursing staff of sufficient number and competency to meet patient needs. Care is delivered in an environment that is healthy, healing and respectful to all patients, visitors and staff. The role provides quality customer service to patients of all ages, their families, visitors, medical staff, clinicians and co-workers, ensuring courteous, timely, and respectful treatment.

This role also establishes and maintains an environmental control plan and coordinates materials management for the department, and assists in monitoring clinic activities.

Current RN licensure in Virginia or eligible.

Experience REQUIRED — 5 years of relevant clinical experience with 2 years of progressive leadership and/or supervisory/management experience.

Experience PREFERRED — Experience in an academic medical center environment.

Education/training REQUIRED — Bachelor’s degree in nursing. Must be enrolled in a Master’s degree program at the time of application and must be completed within 36 months of hire. Special consideration may be given for applicants enrolled in baccalaureate-to-doctoral programs who will not attain a Master’s degree and may require longer than 36 months to complete the terminal degree. If the Master’s degree is not in nursing, a BSN from an accredited school is required.

• unless grandfathered under previous requirements

Education/training PREFERRED — Master’s Degree in Nursing or a related field. If the master’s degree is not in Nursing, then a Baccalaureate Degree in Nursing is required. Certification in specialty area.

Independent Action(s) Required — All day-to-day operations of the unit are handled independently. Advice and guidance are sought from the Director on an as-needed basis for matters with major impact on activity outside the unit. Actions taken without prior approval include daily…