Job Description

Job Location: Atlantic Shores Retirement Community - Virginia Beach, VA 23454
Position Type: Full Time
Salary Range: $91,000.00 - $103,000.00 Salary/year
Job Category: Health CareReady for the Next Step in Your Leadership Career?
If you're an experienced Registered Nurse who enjoys coaching others, building strong teams, and making a meaningful difference in resident care, we'd love to meet you.
At Atlantic Shores Retirement Community, our CMS 5-Star Skilled Nursing Facility is seeking a Clinical Unit Manager to join our leadership team. This opportunity is available because our current Unit Manager has earned a promotion to Director of Nursing - a reflection of our commitment to developing leaders from within.
We believe exceptional resident care starts with exceptional leadership. That's why we're looking for someone who enjoys mentoring staff, solving problems, improving processes, and creating an environment where employees and residents thrive.
If you're looking for a leadership role where your ideas are valued, your growth is encouraged, and your work truly makes an impact, this may be the opportunity you've been waiting for.
Why Atlantic Shores?
At Atlantic Shores, you're not just accepting another nursing position - you're joining a leadership team that is committed to excellence, teamwork, and continuous improvement.
What You'll Find Here
- CMS 5-Star Skilled Nursing Facility
- Leadership team that genuinely supports one another
- Internal career advancement opportunities
- Beautiful Continuing Care Retirement Community in Virginia Beach
- Strong interdisciplinary collaboration
- Focus on quality outcomes and resident centered care
- Positive culture built on respect, accountability, and teamwork
Compensation & Benefits
This is a salaried, full time role. We offer a competitive salary based on experience, along with an exceptional benefits package including:
- Generous PTO beginning with a maximum of 104 hours annually
- Referral Bonus for new employee referrals that join our team
- Star Employee Recognition Program including monetary awards
- Benefits for full-time employees: Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, STD/LTD, Supplemental: Accident/Cancer/Critical Illness, Legal Resources, and Identity Theft
- 401k with company match
- Tuition reimbursement: up to $5,250 annually for qualifying coursework
- Educational Partnership Discounts: South University, ECPI, Regent University, St. Leo University, and Colorado Christian University

Position Summary
The Clinical Unit Manager serves as an essential member of the nursing leadership team, working closely with the Director of Nursing to oversee the daily clinical operations of the unit. This role combines hands on clinical leadership with mentoring, quality improvement, regulatory compliance, and staff development. You'll support the nursing team while helping ensure every resident receives compassionate, high quality, person centered care. This position offers an excellent opportunity for an emerging nursing leader who is ready to continue growing professionally while making a lasting impact on residents and staff.
What You'll Do
- Lead, coach, and mentor nursing staff through daily clinical operations.
- Foster a positive, respectful, and accountable team culture.
- Ensure residents receive exceptional, individualized care.
- Partner with the Director of Nursing to implement best practices and clinical initiatives.
- Monitor quality indicators and participate in Performance Improvement (QAPI) activities.
- Conduct clinical audits and ensure regulatory compliance.
- Coordinate staffing needs and support providers during clinical rounds.
- Participate in care plan meetings and interdisciplinary collaboration.
- Assist with employee coaching, recognition, and performance development.
- Support orientation, education, and ongoing staff training.
- Serve as nursing leadership in the absence of the Director of Nursing.
- Respond to resident and family concerns with professionalism and compassion.

Qualifications
- Current unrestricted Registered Nurse license in the Commonwealth of Virginia.
- Minimum one year of nursing leadership or supervisory experience, preferably in Skilled Nursing or Long-Term Care.
- Strong understanding of CMS regulations and Virginia long-term care requirements.
- Experience with electronic medical records.
- Excellent communication, organizational, and critical thinking skills.
- Passion for coaching, mentoring, and developing nursing staff.
The Leader We're Looking For
Our ideal Clinical Unit Manager is someone who:
- Leads by example.
- Inspires confidence through integrity and accountability.
- Enjoys teaching and developing others.
- Builds strong relationships with residents, families, and staff.
- Communicates openly and respectfully.
- Remains calm and organized in a fast paced environment.
- Is solution oriented and embraces continuous improvement.
- Believes that great resident care begins with an engaged and empowered team.
Grow Your Career With Us
This position is available because our current Unit Manager has been promoted to Director of Nursing. We believe in recognizing talent, investing in our employees, and creating opportunities for professional growth.
If you're ready to take the next step in your nursing leadership career while working alongside an outstanding team in a CMS 5-Star community, we'd love to hear from you.
Lead with compassion. Grow with purpose. Make a difference every day at Atlantic Shores.

Qualifications
Our vision at Atlantic Shores is "To be a neighborhood where people want live and work." Located in Virginia Beach, we are an award-winning continuing care retirement community serving ages 55 and up. We live our mission of being a welcoming neighborhood promoting active lifestyles in a community which ensures freedom, dignity, wellness, independence and security for all residents and staff.

Our Core Values include:
- Service to others
- Culture of Trust/Honesty
- Leadership to Grow
- Loyalty
Why choose us? For a rewarding opportunity.
We are looking for people who have a heart full of compassion, people who are warm and kind. Here at Atlantic Shores, you will have the opportunity to make a wonderful difference in someone’s life every day. Employment with Atlantic Shores comes with great benefits - with the flexibility to choose the health and welfare plans to best meet your needs.