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Nemours Children's Health
Wilmington, Delaware

Social Worker (MSW) - part-time

Social WorkerIncludes weekendsPart-Time

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Job Description

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Master's Level Social Worker to provide clinical social work services in a fast-paced healthcare environment.

This casual position primarily covers evening, overnight, weekend, and holiday shifts, requiring the ability to work independently while managing complex psychosocial situations and competing priorities.

The ideal candidate is an experienced social worker with exceptional assessment skills, strong clinical judgment, and the ability to make critical decisions with minimal supervision. This role requires flexibility, adaptability, and confidence in addressing urgent patient and family needs across a variety of clinical settings.

Provide services in accordance with the policies, procedures and guidelines established within the department, organization, and regulatory bodies.

Responsibilities

  • Conduct comprehensive psychosocial assessments for patients and families presenting with complex medical, behavioral health, social, and environmental concerns.
  • Utilize advanced clinical judgment and critical thinking skills to identify risks, barriers to care, and appropriate interventions.
  • Assess for safety concerns, including abuse, neglect, self-harm risk, domestic violence, substance use, and social determinants of health.
  • Independently manage high-volume caseloads while responding to emergent and time-sensitive patient needs.
  • Provide crisis intervention, emotional support, counseling, and resource coordination.
  • Collaborate effectively with interdisciplinary team members to develop and implement patient-centered care plans.
  • Facilitate referrals to community resources, behavioral health services, long-term care providers, and other supportive programs.
  • Maintain accurate, timely, and comprehensive documentation in the electronic medical record.
  • Demonstrate sound decision-making and problem-solving in situations with limited supervision and rapidly changing circumstances.

Requirements

  • Master’s degree in social work from a program accredited by the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE)
  • LMSW/LCSW licensure in the state of Delaware required.
  • 6 months social work experience

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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
Master's degree (postgraduate degree)

Key Skills

Psychosocial assessmentCase managementSafety assessmentInterdisciplinary collaborationRisk assessment

Social Worker Career Context

Of the 50 active Social Work listings this role was benchmarked against, 38% are remote, 22% have no call, 70% require no weekends.

Social Work pay on WeekdayDoc is up 1.8% 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

Benefits & Perks29 jobs

401k / retirement match
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CME allowance
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Sign-on bonus
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Loan repayment
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Work-life snapshot

median 6.0this job 3.0
Better work-life than 20% of Social Work listings

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 6,470 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

  • Includes weekends

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.