If you are interested in applying for employment or in volunteering at our center, please stop by the University Child Care's front desk to fill out an employment application. You may also call us at 410-704-2652 to request that an application be mailed/faxed to you. Applications can also be printed off the internet at the Career Center 's website at www.towson.edu/careercenter. You would then need to either mail it, hand deliver, fax (fax number is 410-704-3771) or email to     mskeeters@towson.edu

Please note: ours is an academic environment. Because university students are our employees, there are situations which occur over which none of us have any control; situations which cause student employees to withdraw soon after they being working, or, on occassion,even before they begin working. This tends to be particularly the case w/ regard to Minimester and Summer when courses are cancelled due to lack of enrollment. If the university cancels the class for which a student is enrolled, they may not know until just shortly before the class begins. They then, in turn, may decide not to work during that session, if they also cannot also take a course. We then, are suddenly looking looking for student employees again, even though we had just turned other students away who were interested, saying we had no openings.(As far as we knew, we had no openings at that juncture.)

This is, unfortunately, not all that of an uncommon occurance.

 

There is a training session required of all new employees, which we often have to present (due to such intense differences in schedules) after you have already started working. This is a required training. The training is led by our Senior Most Student Staff Member, and you will be contacted by the person regarding training times. Our current Senior Most Student Staff Member is "Miss Michelle", Michelle Stone, who is currently also the Back-Up Teacher in Miss Ilene's class.(mstone3@student.towson.edu)

There are a variety of forms which need to be completed and delivered by the prospective student employee either to the University's Payroll Office or Human Resources Office before you will be able to be paid. You may not continue to work until these requirements have been met.

Guidelines addressing the specificity of our environment regarding Staff Dress Code

 Please discuss any questions you may have with your Lead/Supervisor.

• Clean, modest, clothing which allows you to move freely, and modestly, up and down from the floor (which is what we do constantly, day in-day out).
• Shoes which support your ability to run after children who move very quickly. Every staff member is expected to be able to assist in this constant effort. Sandals, heels etc. will not provide the support you need to run after children on our variety of surfaces.

• This is a family environment. Come dressed appropriately, or you will be asked to leave and change before returning. Our staffing schemata operates within ratio requirements. Having someone not available to us, because they are not appropriately dressed, and were sent home, is unacceptable. Dressing appropriately, safely, and modestly is a job requirement.

• If you are not aware, then should become aware, that it is 100% NORMAL for young children to grab/pull jewelry: nose rings, ear rings, eye brow rings, ear rings, hair etc. If you wear a belly button ring your clothing should cover you adequately so that children are not aware of it. Bending over or sitting on the floor should be facilitated by clothing that does not reveal any extra body areas.

• Your Supervisor’s role is to maintain decorum in one of each of our five environments (classrooms and office). Your supervisor will bring clothing which is deemed inappropriate to our environment to your attention. Each Supervisor is responsible for and will  maintain decorum within their cluster. This is further interpreted to mean, a determination of family-atmosphere appropriateness. If any of your clothing is printed w/controversial or inappropriate material, do not wear it here. We will be the judge of what is inappropriate.

• Hair styles, jewelry, and clothing which would be of interest to children who might, quite naturally, grab/pull is strongly discouraged. Your safety and the inability of most young children (which is precisely who we serve) to NOT-be-curious is to be taken VERY seriously in our environment here at the Center.

• Every child should be allowed to approach you…for a hug, to talk quietly-and-up-close if they choose, to have a lap to sit on etc. Keeping someone from you to protect YOU or your clothing from a naturally curious, grabbing child is not something we could or will easily explain to one of our young child who might well interpret your “aloofness” as something bordering on a “liking-someone-else-more-then-me”, or “I don’t know why they don’t like me” interpretation. Fancy clothing, jewelry hanging from any number of body parts, special hairdos etc. are strongly discouraged.

• Do not wear low-slung pants which tend to reveal more than any of us prefer to know. The same problem becomes immediately evident with very short skirts, and very short shorts. Do not wear any of them to work.

• Do not wear shirts which display vulgar wording/expressions, or are of a controversial nature. (Not all of our children are pre-literate, and our parents and staff definitely are literate.)  

 

Your role at the Center, among others, is to support/develop self esteem, not to inadvertently undermine it. (Clearly, you may not see your mode of dress as a direct affront to any child, but we would hope that you can see why it could become an issue for a young child IF you need to be busy protecting yourself from the harm or disruption which any child’s natural curiosity might cause you.

 

Health and safety requirements* include fingerprinting, (which currently, if done here on campus, costs $37.25, a physical: done here on campus costing $45.00, and a tuberculosis certification: done here on campus costing $20). The Center will pay those costs for its student employees if the tests are done here on campus. The costs to the Center of hiring you are $102.25 per student employee. You will be asked to sign a form designed to inform you that if we are not allowed to have you work here, due to the findings of any of these certifications, that you will be required to refund the Center for the cost of these certifications.You will also agree to refund for the cost of these certifications if you do not work out the semester hours that you agree to initially with your supervisor.

We are licensed by the State of Maryland, and are required to meet certain minimal employment standards: a medical certification that you are physically well enough to work with young, very active students (this includes a certification that you do not carry Tuberculosis), and a criminal background check.

As a student here at the university you are entitled to have the medical pieces done here at the University Health Center. However, a tuberculine test will not be administered weekly beyond Wednesday, in order to allow the 48-76 hours required for the reading of the tuberculine test. Call to make an appointment before going to the Health Center--410-704-2466. The Center will pay for the cost of the medical and back ground check IF you stay with us for at least one full semester. If not, we will charge your account the full cost of these tests* which is currently $102.25. (You will be asked to sign and date both our "Letter to The Campus Police", and our "Letter to The Health Center" on which you acknowledge, via your signature, that you understand our agreement with you.)

* Current costs: The physical is $45.00/pp, the TB test is $20/pp, and the criminal background check is $37.25/pp

Please note: Criminal background checks are maintained exclusively for the purpose of meeting the Center's regulatory requirements.

* Piercings of ears, lips, eye brows, tongue, face etc. can prove dangerous, as children find them to be exactly what they are: shiny and attractive, but being children, they also naturally grab and pull for the shiny and attractive...