CPS Conservatorship Specialist

2 days ago


San Marcos, Texas, United States Dept of Family & Protectve Svc Full time
Job Description:

Overview

As a CPS Conservatorship Specialist with the Department of Family and Protective Services, you will play a critical role in ensuring the safety and well-being of children in Texas. Your primary responsibility will be to work with families, communities, and other stakeholders to achieve positive permanency for children in care.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Receives cases from investigators and determines each child's needs, ensuring appropriate referrals for testing, evaluations, and assessments.
  • Works with children, families, and communities to plan for a child's permanency, identifying potential permanency resources and searching for kinship providers.
  • Completes home studies of a child's family members or family friends who might care for the child.
  • Meets with parents to assess risk and safety issues, referring parents to appropriate services to address identified needs.
  • Collaborates with a Placement Team, including Kinship staff, for placements, as needed.
  • Visits children monthly to assess their feeling of safety in their current home, plan for permanency, and discuss their needs, wishes, and progress while in care.
  • Attends and participates in court hearings about the child and family, preparing court reports and testifying in court on the child's needs, the family's progress, and the department's efforts to achieve permanency for the child.

Requirements:

  • Child Protective Services Specialist I: An accredited Bachelor's degree or accredited Associate's degree plus two (2) years of relevant work experience.
  • Child Protective Services Specialist II: Employed as a Child Protective Services Specialist I for 9 months and have received Child Protective Services FBSS Specialist Certification.
  • Child Protective Services Specialist III: Employed as a Child Protective Services Specialist II for 9 months and have received Advanced Child Protective Services Specialist Certification.
  • Child Protective Services Specialist IV: Employed as a Child Protective Services Specialist III for 24 months and have received Senior Advanced Child Protective Services Specialist Certification.

Competencies:

  • 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.

Physical Requirements:

  • Frequently stands, hears, and talks.
  • Occasionally climbs.
  • Typically performs work that requires exerting 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.

Working Conditions:

  • Typically works in a mobile environment and is exposed occasionally to adverse environmental conditions.


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