CPS Conservatorship Worker

Texas A&M International; Huntsville (TX); On-site; USD 43,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Full health insurance

Retirement plans

Paid vacation

Optional dental, vision, and life保险

Flexible spending accounts

Employee discounts

Job summary

Texas Department of Family and Protective Services in Huntsville seeks a CPS Conservatorship Worker to support children who have been removed from their homes. Conservatorship Specialists are caseworkers responsible for the child's welfare while under CPS conservatorship, collaborating with parents, relatives, and legal parties to secure a safe, permanent home.

New hires with a Master’s Degree in Social Work may qualify for a higher starting rate.

Qualifications

• Master's degree in Social Work may qualify for higher starting rate.
• Experience in child welfare and kinship placements is beneficial.
• Strong communication and collaboration with families and legal entities.

Responsibilities

• Receives cases after children are removed and placed in CPS conservatorship.
• Determines needs and ensures referrals for testing, evaluations, records, or further assessments.
• Works with children, families, and communities to plan permanency.
• Identifies permanency resources and conducts kinship home studies.
• Assesses risk and safety, referring families to services to improve outcomes.
• Meetings with parents and children to monitor progress towards permanency.
• Collaborates with a Placement Team and Kinship staff.

Skills

Case management

Child welfare knowledge

Kinship assessment

Communication skills

Education

Master's Degree in Social Work

Job description

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The Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS) works to build on strengths of families and communities to keep children and vulnerable adults safe, so they thrive. We do this through investigations, services, and referrals.

What You Get Beyond Your Paycheck

When you join the State of Texas, your monthly paycheck is just one part of your real income. Our benefits provide extra value that many private employers simply don’t match—often adding hundreds of dollars each month to what you take home or save.

Here’s what you get as a full-time employee:

• 100% paid health insurance for you, and 50% paid for eligible family members—saving you hundreds every month in out-of-pocket medical costs
• Retirement plans with lifetime monthly payments after five years of state service, plus options to save even more with 401(k) and 457 plans
• Paid vacation, holidays, and sick leave so you can recharge and take care of life outside work (that’s time off you’re actually paid for)
• Optional dental, vision, and life insurance —at rates much lower than most private plans
• Flexible spending accounts for added tax savings on health and dependent care
• Employee discounts on things like gym memberships, electronics, and entertainment

Functional Title: CPS Conservatorship Worker

Job Title: CPS CVS Spec I

Agency: Dept of Family & Protectve Svc

Department: Region 6B CPS Dir Del - CVS

Posting Number: 22691

Closing Date: 11/09/2026

Posting Audience: Internal and External

Occupational Category: Protective Services

Salary Range: $3,816.65-$5,372.41

Pay Frequency: Monthly

Salary Group: TEXAS-B-17

Shift: Day

Additional Shift: Days (First)

Telework: Not Eligible for Telework

Travel: Up to 85%

Regular/Temporary: Regular

Full Time/Part Time: Full time

FLSA Exempt/Non-Exempt: Nonexempt

Facility Location:

Job Location City: HUNTSVILLE

Job Location Address: 2507 LAKE RD STE B

Other Locations:

MOS Codes: 0149,5805,5821,5822,5832,14N,14NX,183X,1N0X1,230X,311A,31D,351L,351M,35L,35M,42SX,43HX,4C0X1,4E0X1,5IX,683X,68X,71SX,73A,783X,HM,INV,IS,ISS,IV,MST,NC,OAP12

Brief Job Description

Whenever a child must be removed from their home, Texas courts appoint Child Protective Services (CPS) to serve as a "Conservator" of the child. Conservatorship Specialists are a specific type of caseworker legally responsible for a child's welfare whenever they are removed from their home and monitors children's care while in CPS conservatorship. They work closely with parents, extended family, and legal parties to help children find a permanent, safe place to live.

Newly hired employees holding a Master's Degree in Social Worker may qualify for an increase at the point of hire.

Essential Job Functions (EJFs)

• Receives cases from investigators after children are removed from their homes, placed in CPS conservatorship, and placed in care outside their homes.
• Determines each child’s needs and ensuring that appropriate referrals for testing, evaluations, records, or further assessments are made. Ensures all services are focused on achieving positive permanency.
• Working with children, families, and communities to plan for a child's permanency.
• Identifying potential permanency resources for the child through ongoing contact with parents, family members, and other individuals the child and family identify as important to them.
• Searching for potential kinship providers throughout the case. Completing home studies of a child's family members or family friends (kinship providers) who might care for the child.
• Meets with the parents to assess risk and safety issues, identify behavior changes necessary to achieve child safety, referring parents to appropriate services to address the identified needs to move towards positive permanency. Discusses with parents their progress towards making changes to behaviors that pose dangers to their child(ren).
• Meets with children, parents, family friends, or foster homes in public as well as in their own homes.
• Collaborates with a Placement Team, including Kinship staff,