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Housekeeping Aide (Pediatrics)

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Philadelphia, PAFull-time$16–23/hrPosted 2 days agoSeen in employer's feed today

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Compensation
$16–23/hr
Location
Philadelphia, PA
Schedule
Full-time
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

The Housekeeping Aide helps maintain a clean, sanitary, safe, and welcoming pediatric care facility for children, families, and staff. The role supports infection prevention and clinical teams by cleaning resident rooms and shared spaces, maintaining floors, and responding to housekeeping needs. It also involves respectful interactions with residents and visitors and protecting their privacy.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Attention to DetailDependabilityPunctualityTeamworkCleaning and SanitizationFloor CareOperating Floor Care EquipmentInfection ControlLifting 50 PoundsEnglish

Qualifications

High School Diploma or GEDMust Be 21+Position-Related ExperienceMedical and Physical ExaminationIntermediate English Proficiency

Full job description

Salary

$16 - 23 hr

Overview

Housekeeping Aide Pediatric Specialty Care – Philadelphia Help Create a Safe, Healing Environment for Children

At Pediatric Specialty Care (PSC) , every employee plays an important role in helping medically fragile children receive the exceptional care they deserve. Our Housekeeping team is more than a support service—they are essential partners in creating a clean, safe, and comforting environment where children can heal, grow, and thrive.

If you take pride in your work, enjoy being part of a collaborative team, and want to make a meaningful difference every day, we'd love to meet you.

Why This Role Matters

As a Housekeeping Aide, your work directly contributes to the health, safety, and well-being of our residents, families, and staff. Every room you clean and every space you maintain helps create an environment where children can receive the highest quality care.

Housekeeping / Environmental Services Responsibilities:

  • Maintain a clean, sanitary, and welcoming environment throughout the facility.

  • Reduce the risk of infection through proper cleaning, sanitization, and disinfection practices.

  • Support our clinical care teams by maintaining patient rooms, common areas, and other designated facility spaces.

  • Perform routine and scheduled floor cleaning and maintenance, including mopping, scrubbing, stripping, waxing, and buffing , to ensure floors remain clean, safe, and properly maintained.

  • Operate floor care equipment and utilize appropriate cleaning products in accordance with manufacturer guidelines, facility policies, and safety procedures.

  • Create a comforting, home-like atmosphere for children and their families.

  • Help ensure compliance with healthcare cleanliness, infection prevention, and environmental safety standards.

At PSC, your work truly matters.

Who We're Looking For

We're seeking someone who:

  • Takes pride in delivering quality work and paying attention to detail

  • Is dependable, punctual, and committed to excellence

  • Enjoys working as part of a supportive healthcare team

  • Understands the important role environmental services play in patient care

  • Treats every resident room and shared space with professionalism, respect, and compassion

Why You'll Love Working at Pediatric Specialty Care

  • Make a meaningful impact in the lives of medically fragile children

  • Become part of a mission-driven organization dedicated to compassionate pediatric care

  • Work alongside a supportive and collaborative interdisciplinary team

  • Enjoy a positive, respectful workplace culture where every role is valued

  • Competitive pay and benefits for eligible employees

  • Opportunities to grow your career within a leading pediatric healthcare organization

Join a Team That Makes a Difference

At Pediatric Specialty Care, healing happens because every team member contributes. Whether you're providing direct care or creating a clean and welcoming environment, your work has a lasting impact on the children and families we serve.

Join Pediatric Specialty Care—where every role matters, every contribution is valued, and every clean space helps a child thrive.

Responsibilities

Housekeeping Aide - What You’ll Do:

You will help maintain the cleanliness, safety, and appearance of our pediatric care facility, including:

  • Cleaning and maintaining individual resident rooms, restrooms, and common areas

  • Performing terminal cleaning following room transfers, discharges, or transitions

  • Sanitizing high-touch surfaces daily to support infection control

  • Wet and dry mopping floors and using proper safety signage

  • Cleaning furniture, fixtures, mirrors, walls, baseboards, stairwells, elevators (if applicable), and windows

  • Maintaining clean and soiled utility rooms

  • Restocking housekeeping carts and maintaining organized supply areas

  • Responding to emergency housekeeping needs when accidents occur

  • Submitting maintenance requests as needed

  • Interacting respectfully and compassionately with children, families, staff, and visitors

  • Protecting confidentiality and respecting privacy at all times

Qualifications

  • High school diploma or GED

  • Must be 21 years or older

  • Position related experience preferred

  • Ability to perform assigned tasks to a high degree of excellence, and cleanliness required

  • Must be able to push, pull, move, and/or lift a minimum of 50 (fifty) pounds to a minimum height of 4 (four) feet and be able to push, move, and/or carry such weight a minimum distance of 2 (two) feet

  • Must meet the general health requirements set forth by the policies of this facility, which include a medical and physical examination

  • Respect for residents' privacy and rights for respect and dignity necessary

  • This position requires regular interaction with residents, coworkers, visitors, and/or supervisors. In order to ensure a safe work environment for residents, coworkers, visitors, and/or supervisors of the Company, and to permit unfettered communication between the employee and those residents, coworkers, visitors, and supervisors, this position requires that the employee be able to read, write, speak, and understand the English language at an intermediate or more advanced level.

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Posted Date (10/27/2026 3:01 PM)

Requisition ID2026-37156

of Openings1

Area of InterestFacilities

CompanyPediatric Specialty Care

LocationPediatric Specialty Care at Philadelphia

Position TypeRegular Full-Time

Shift6 AM - 2 PM

Salary$16 - 23 hr

Reporting CategoryNon-Clinical

How this job compares

Set against the 1,022 open Environmental Services jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 28, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$16–23/hr
  • US median$18–23/hr353 hourly ranges

This range's midpoint, $19.50/hr, is 3% below the US median midpoint ($20/hr) — in the middle half of Environmental Services hourly ranges across the US.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 81 open Environmental Services jobs in Pennsylvania and 1,022 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in Pennsylvania
Experience
Environmental Services postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 1 to 12 years (363 postings).
Education
This posting asks for a high school diploma; 379 of the 1,022 open Environmental Services jobs (37%) ask for a high school diploma or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 28, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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