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Nemours Children's Health
Pensacola, Florida

Social Worker - MSW

Social WorkerIncludes callNo weekendsFull-Time

Compensation

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Job Description

Nemours Children's Health is seeking a full-time Social Worker - MSW to join our team in Pensacola, Florida. This position will provide support to patients and families in our pediatric speciality clinics.

Schedule: Full-time position, 40 hours Monday-Friday. Normal business hours.

Qualifications

  • Masters degree in Social Work from a program accredited by the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE)
  • More than 1 year experience required; graduate school internship may be applied to job-related experience
  • Social Workers are required to be eligible and required to be a Registered Licensed Clinical Social Work Intern with the Florida Board of Social Work

Primary Responsibilities

  • Psychosocial assessments (Whole Child), interventions and support required for critical patient care. Provides support for patients and their families assisting with emotional, personal, psychological, and socioeconomic factors along with adjustment to illness issues.
  • Daily management of patient care needs
  • Linkage to community resources, facilitate referrals to private, state and federal agencies bases on psychosocial needs.
  • Documents social work interactions in EPIC in a timely matter.
  • Attend multi-disciplinary meetings, social work and mid-tier huddles.
  • Provide protective (Mandatory Child Abuse reporting) and advocacy services
  • Consults and collaborates with interdisciplinary colleagues involved either directly or indirectly with the case and treatment of patients and their families.
  • Provide protective (Mandatory Child Abuse reporting) and advocacy services
  • Community Engagement

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.

Key Responsibilities

Provide psychosocial assessments and support to pediatric patients and their families to address emotional and socioeconomic factors. Manage daily patient care needs, facilitate community referrals, and collaborate with interdisciplinary teams.

Qualifications

Education
Master's degree (postgraduate degree)

Key Skills

Crisis InterventionCase ManagementCommunity Resource LinkageEPIC DocumentationPatient AdvocacyInterdisciplinary Collaboration

Work-Life Balance Analysis

WeekdayDoc's proprietary algorithm rates Social Worker - MSW at Nemours Children's Health a 6.0 out of 10 for work-life balance — classified as good. This places the position in the top 35% of all Social Work social worker listings evaluated on our platform. Contributing factors include no weekend requirements.

Social Worker Career Context

Of the 50 active Social Work listings this role was benchmarked against, 32% are remote, 34% have no call, 68% require no weekends.

The cost-of-living index for Florida is 103.4 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)). 58.1% of Florida clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

Location & Logistics

Florida has no state income tax, which can significantly increase take-home pay compared to high-tax states.

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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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PSLF eligible
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Work-life snapshot

median 6.0this job 6.0
Better work-life than 50% of Social Work listings

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 6,494 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

  • No weekends
  • Includes call

Living in Pensacola

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$260k
Typical market rent
$1,657/mo
Residents’ average commute
22 min
Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
97.7
State income tax
None
Sources & methodology

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

BEA 2024 · Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent, FL 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

Full-time benefits
Normal business hours