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Nemours Children's Health
Wilmington, Delaware

Pediatrician, Primary Care - St. Francis

PediatricsFull-Time

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Posted 1mo ago

Job Description

Nemours Children’s Health is seeking a bilingual Pediatrician to join our primary care team at our St. Francis location in Wilmington, Delaware. This is an excellent opportunity for a physician who is passionate about providing high-quality, family-centered care and supporting the health and well-being of children in a diverse community.

Position Overview

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.
  • Partner with families to 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.
  • Collaborate with physicians, advanced practice providers, nurses and care team members to ensure coordinated, high-quality care.
  • Support Nemours’ commitment to whole-child health, prevention and helping every child achieve their healthiest future.

Qualifications

  • MD or DO degree from an accredited medical school.
  • Board certification in Pediatrics required.
  • Eligibility for an unrestricted Delaware medical license and DEA registration.
  • Bilingual fluency in English and Spanish required.
  • Strong commitment to pediatric primary care, family-centered communication and serving diverse communities

What We Offer

  • Competitive Compensation: Base salary and annual incentives recognizing clinical, academic, and quality achievements
  • Comprehensive Benefits: Health, dental, vision, and life insurance
  • Retirement Planning: 403B with employer match and 457 plans
  • Relocation Support: Mortgage assistance and relocation packages
  • Work-Life Balance: Six weeks of paid family leave
  • Professional Development: CME, licensure and dues allowances
  • Additional Benefits: Public Service Loan Forgiveness eligibility;

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
Doctoral or professional degree (postgraduate degree)
Experience
2+ years of experience

Certifications

DEA License

Key Skills

Spanish fluencyClinical collaborationPatient communicationPediatric medicine

Pediatrics — Physician Career Context

Of the 50 active Physician listings this role was benchmarked against, 6% are remote, 76% have no call, 38% require no weekends.

Physician pay on WeekdayDoc is up 1.7% 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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Salary Distribution18 jobs · 16 employers

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Annual compensation range

Benefits & Perks18 jobs · 16 employers

401k / retirement match
89% this job
CME allowance
61% this job
Relocation assistance
39% this job
Sign-on bonus
22%
Loan repayment
17% this job

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Work-life snapshot

median 5.1this job 3.0
Better work-life than 20% of Pediatrics listings

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 730 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

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5,001-10,000 employees

Benefits & Perks

Competitive compensation with annual incentives
Health, dental, vision, and life insurance
403B with employer match and 457 plans
Relocation support and mortgage assistance
Six weeks of paid family leave
CME, licensure and dues allowances
Public Service Loan Forgiveness eligibility