Social Worker (MSW) - part-time

Nemours Children's Health; Wilmington (DE); On-site; USD 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Nemours Children's Health in Delaware seeks a Master’s Level Social Worker to provide clinical social work services in a fast-paced healthcare setting. This casual position covers evening, overnight, weekend, and holiday shifts, requiring the ability to work independently while managing complex psychosocial situations and competing priorities.

The ideal candidate brings strong assessment skills, clinical judgment, and the capacity to make critical decisions with minimal supervision.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in social work from CSWE-accredited program.
• LMSW/LCSW licensure in Delaware required.
• Minimum 6 months social work experience.

Responsibilities

• Conduct comprehensive psychosocial assessments for patients and families.
• Utilize advanced clinical judgment to identify risks and interventions.
• Assess safety, abuse, neglect, self-harm, domestic violence, substance use, and social determinants.
• Independently manage high-volume caseloads with emergent needs.
• Provide crisis intervention, counseling, and resource coordination.
• Collaborate with interdisciplinary team to develop patient-centered care plans.
• Facilitate referrals to community resources and behavioral health services.
• Maintain accurate documentation in the EMR.
• Demonstrate sound decision-making in changing circumstances.

Skills

Clinical assessment

Crisis intervention

Interdisciplinary collaboration

Documentation

Education

MSW (CSWE accredited)

Job description

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

About Us

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 .