CPS Conservatorship Specialist

CPS Conservatorship Specialists are responsible for ensuring the safety and well-being of children in the care of the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services. They work closely with families, communities, and other stakeholders to achieve positive permanency for children.

• Receives cases from investigators and determines each child's needs.
• Ensures all services are focused on achieving positive permanency.
• Works with children, families, and communities to plan for a child's permanency.
• Identifies potential permanency resources for the child.
• Searches for potential kinship providers and completes home studies.
• Meets with parents to assess risk and safety issues.
• Collaborates with a Placement Team for placements.
• Participates in meetings and conferences.
• Visits children monthly to assess their feeling of safety.
• Attends and participates in court hearings.

• Must be able to understand and speak in English and Spanish.
• Requires a reliable motor vehicle and a current, valid Texas driver's license.
• Must have a basic understanding of child development and family dynamics.

• Engaging: Understands and is able to articulate how family engagement is critical to achieving safety, permanency, and well-being.
• Teaming: Understands the need to expand the child's safety network beyond caregivers and to other adults who care about the child and can participate in day-to-day safety of the child.
• Assessing: Understands and is able to articulate the concept of child safety.
• Planning: Considers ways to ensure personal safety in addition to safety of children and families during interviews and other meetings.
• Intervening: Understands and is able to articulate what an intervention is and the variety of interventions CPS might use under which circumstances.
• Evaluating: Understands and is able to articulate personal responsibility for outcomes in a case.

The incumbent typically performs work that requires him/her to exert up to 20 pounds occasionally, and/or up to 10 pounds of force frequently, and/or a negligible amount of force constantly to move objects.

The incumbent must be able to see objects clearly at 20 inches or less, and at 20 or more feet. In addition, he/she must be able to adjust his/her eyes to bring objects into focus, distinguish colors, see objects in his/her peripheral vision, and see objects in three dimensions.

The incumbent typically works in a mobile environment and is exposed occasionally to adverse environmental conditions including, but not necessarily limited to, extreme heat, wetness and humidity, chemicals, close quarters, gases and heights.