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Nemours Children's Health
Wilmington, Delaware

Pediatric Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant, Primary Care - St. Francis

Nurse PractitionerFull-Time Full Practice Authority

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Job Description

Nemours Children’s Health is seeking a bilingual Advanced Practice Provider to join our primary care team at our St. Francis location in Wilmington, Delaware.

This position is open to qualified Physician Assistants and Pediatric Nurse Practitioners who are passionate about providing high-quality, family-centered care and supporting the health and well-being of children in a diverse community.

Our Nemours primary care practices provide a kid-friendly, family-centered pediatric primary care experience for families. With convenient locations throughout the region, we deliver quality, professional primary care services with a special focus on preventive care, whole-child wellness and building trusted relationships with patients and families.

Key Responsibilities

  • Provide comprehensive pediatric primary care services for infants, children and adolescents in collaboration with the physician and care team.
  • Support preventive care, routine wellness visits, immunizations, acute care needs and chronic condition management.
  • Deliver culturally responsive care and communicate effectively with Spanish-speaking patients and families.
  • Partner with families to promote whole-child wellness, healthy development and ongoing preventive care.
  • Collaborate with physicians, nurses and other care team members to ensure coordinated, high-quality care.

Qualifications

  • PNP- Active unrestricted Delaware or compact state RN and APRN licensure, Delaware prescriptive authority (CSR), Delaware DEA with a Delaware address, and a BLS from the American Heart Association.
  • PA-C- Active unrestriced Delaware Physician Assistance license or compact state, National Certification from the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants; DE Prescriptive Authority; DE Federal DEA; BLS from the American Heart Association.
  • Three years of related clinical experience required
  • Excellent written, phone, and interpersonal communication skills required.
  • Bilingual fluency in English and Spanish required.
  • Experience in pediatric primary care preferred.
  • Strong commitment to family-centered care, team-based collaboration and serving diverse communities.

What We Offer

  • Comprehensive Benefits: Health, dental, vision and life insurance
  • Retirement Planning: 403B with employer match and 457 plans
  • Work-Life Balance: Paid time off and paid family leave
  • Professional Development: CME, licensure and dues allowances
  • Additional Benefits: Public Service Loan Forgiveness eligibility and wellness resources

Nemours Children's Health is an internationally recognized pediatric health system serving more than 1.7 million patient encounters each year. We deliver care across six states through two freestanding children’s hospitals — Nemours Children's Hospital, Delaware and Nemours Children's Hospital, Florida — along with a network of more than 80 primary, urgent, and specialty care practices and more than 40 hospital partnerships.

Backed by the Nemours Foundation and Alfred I. duPont Trust, our $1.7B nonprofit system is dedicated to improving children's health through clinical care, research, education, advocacy, and prevention. Our Whole Child Health approach focuses equally on prevention and treatment, partnering with communities to help every child thrive.

Inclusion and belonging guide our strategy and growth. We are committed to culturally relevant care, reducing health disparities, and fostering an environment where every associate, patient, and family feels supported and valued.

Learn more at Nemours.org.

Qualifications

Education
Professional certificate or licensure
Experience
2+ years of experience

Certifications

DEA License

Key Skills

Clinical collaborationPatient communication

Primary Care — Nurse Practitioner Career Context

Of the 50 active Primary Care listings this role was benchmarked against, 18% are remote, 58% have no call, 68% require no weekends.

Primary Care pay on WeekdayDoc is down 3.3% vs. the prior quarter (through Sep 2026).

The cost-of-living index for Delaware is 99.8 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)). 63.5% of Delaware clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

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Annual compensation range

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401k / retirement match
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Sign-on bonus
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CME allowance
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Loan repayment
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Relocation assistance
8%

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Work-life snapshot

median 6.3this job 3.0
Better work-life than 20% of Primary Care (NP) listings

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 1,109 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

Living in Wilmington

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$299k
Typical market rent
$1,786/mo
Residents’ average commute
24 min
Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
102.6
State income tax
Up to 6.6%
Sources & methodology

Sources: Zillow home values (Aug 2026), Zillow market rents (Aug 2026), U.S. Census ACS 2024 five-year.

BEA 2024 · Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.

City-level figures. Not a cost-of-living guarantee.

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About Nemours Children's Health

Hospitals and Health Care
Jacksonville, Florida
5,001-10,000 employees

Benefits & Perks

Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
Life Insurance
403B with employer match
457 plans
Paid Time Off
Paid Family Leave