Residential Child Care Licensing Inspector

Texas Health & Human Services Commission; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 47,000 - 57,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

100% paid employee health insurance

Defined benefit pension

Generous time off

Career advancement opportunities

Job summary

HHSC's Health & Human Services Commission in Texas is hiring a Residential Child-Care Regulation Inspector (Inspector III). You will regulate and educate child-care providers to ensure health, safety, and well-being of children across residential facilities.

As part of the CCL Residential Field Ops, you will monitor operations, conduct inspections, review permits, and train providers, with telework eligibility and strong career advancement opportunities.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of Texas laws and regulation.

Responsibilities

• Monitors residential operations and agencies; cites deficiencies and provides corrective action.
• Investigates complaints and ensures timely regulatory actions within legal timeframes.
• Evaluates applications for general residential operations and agencies to issue permits.
• Identifies risk and refers to enforcement when needed; supports provider accountability.
• Provides training and technical assistance to residential-child-care providers.
• Responds to high-risk emergencies and supports unit operations.

Skills

Knowledge of Texas laws and regulation

Job description

Join the Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) and be part of a team committed to creating a positive impact in the lives of fellow Texans. At HHSC, your contributions matter, and we support you at each stage of your life and work journey. Our comprehensive benefits package includes 100% paid employee health insurance for full-time eligible employees, a defined benefit pension plan, generous time off benefits, numerous opportunities for career advancement and more. Explore more details on the Benefits of Working at HHS webpage.

Functional Title: Residential Child Care Licensing Inspector

Job Title: Inspector III

Agency: Health & Human Services Comm

Department: CCL Residential Field Ops

Posting Number: 22796

Closing Date: 12/28/2026

Posting Audience: Internal and External

Occupational Category: Protective Services

Salary Range: $4,250.00- $5,094.16

Pay Frequency: Monthly

Salary Group: TEXAS-B-16

Shift: Day

Additional Shift: Days (First)

Telework: Eligible for Telework

Travel: Up to 75%

Regular: Regular

Full Time/Part Time: Full time

FLSA Exempt/Non-Exempt: Nonexempt

Facility Location: Job Location City: BROWNWOOD

Job Location Address: 2400 CROCKETT DR STE 100

Other Locations: MOS Codes: 6016,6017,8012,8056,1S0X1,2A7X2,2F0X1,43HX,4E0X1,640A,68R,86M0,87G0,87I0,87Q0,8I000,8I100,8S000,ADLS,ME,MSSD,MSSE,MSSR,MST,OAP11,OAP14

Brief Job Description

Why choose to become a Residential Child-Care Regulation Inspector?

Be an agent of change

Challenging, never boring

Flexibility

Advancement and promotional opportunities

If you’re seeking a rewarding career where you can utilize your skills, educate and regulate child-care providers to ensure the health, safety, and well-being of children in Texas, and make a difference, you’re in the right place!

Our child-care regulation inspectors work as a collaborative team monitoring and investigating residential child-care facilities throughout the State of Texas. Team members perform facility inspections, conduct investigations in general residential operations, child-placing agencies, and agency homes, provide training to residential child-care providers, and convene inquiry meetings for residential child-care facility applicants.

This position may be filled as RCCL Inspector IV or V if applicant has previous experience as identified in the initial screening section.

The state of Texas offers many benefits to employees. HHSC is a qualifying organization for the Federal Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program, which forgives the remaining balance on college student Direct Loans after making 120 qualifying monthly payments.

We also offer excellent health benefits, a lifetime monthly retirement annuity as well as 401(k) and 457 Programs under the Employees Retirement System of Texas.

Essential Job Functions (EJFs)

• Monitors general residential operations and child-placing agencies, and selected agency homes. Documents compliance or noncompliance with standards and notifies providers of any required corrective action in accordance with CCR policy. Monitoring includes the timely completion of monitoring inspections; follow-up inspections; providing feedback on waivers and variances requests. Monitors application and permit fee payments; monitors for results of background checks for review and next steps; assesses controlling persons identification; and monitors permit renewals. Effectively plans inspections, evaluates all standards in a two-year period; identifies and cites deficiencies correctly while ensuring risk mitigation; takes photos as required and documents those correctly; ensures the documentation is clear and concise; ensures corrections to deficiencies are appropriate to address risk; and provides useful, purposeful technical assistance to assist operations in improving compliance. (30%)
• Investigates complaints, allegations of minimum standards violations in general residential operations and child-placing agencies, and agency homes. Investigations are completed timely according to law, rule, and policy expectations. This position must complete investigation initiations and investigation actions timely and accurately within required time frames; and send investigation notifications timely. Documentation reflects that investigations are thorough, address risk to children, and are compliant with laws, rules, and minimum standards. In addition, documentation of findings is sufficient to support the investigation decisions. Completes regulatory tasks associated with DFPS investigations of abuse, neglect, or exploitation in residential childcare operations such as participating in risk assessments; evaluation of information collected during DFPS investigations to cite deficiencies for minimum standards violations timely according to law, rule, and policy; and ensures all actions are completed timely and accurately within required time frames. (25%)
• Evaluates new applications for general residential operations and child-placing agencies to issue permits. Permit applications and issuances are processed according to law, rules, and policy time frames. Documentation accurately reflects the acceptance and issuance decisions. (15%)
• Identifies risk and recommends referral to Child-Care Enforcement (CCE) when necessary, in accordance with law, rule, and policy, with the focus on provider accountability to ensure the health, safety, and well-being of children in residential child-care facilities. This position is responsible for processing provider plans of action timely and addressing identified risk; conducting inspections to follow up after enforcement actions to evaluate residential child-care facility compliance with the tasks or conditions associated with the action. (10%)
• Provides training and technical assistance to residential child-care providers. Attends or presents at provider meetings. Conducts provider trainings that are useful, purposeful, and outcome-oriented, including inquiry sessions for new providers, and minimum standard trainings. Networks and collaborates with providers, stakeholders, and the public. (10%)
• Responds to emergency complaints of high-risk situations in residential child-care facilities. (5%)
• Performs other duties as assigned and required to maintain unit operations. (5%)

Registrations, Licensure Requirements or Certifications

Valid driver's license

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (KSAs)

• Knowledge of Texas laws and regulation.
• Skill in effective