CPS Conservatorship Worker

Posting 18024
-Posted
- Dept of Family & Protectve Svc

- Region 10 CPS Dir Del - CVS

- Protective Services

- Not Eligible for Telework
- Other Locations (3) -b. $3000 - $4999 per month

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.

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 10 CPS Dir Del - CVS

Posting Number:
18024

Closing Date:
07/15/2026

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:
None

Telework:
Not Eligible for Telework

Travel:
Up to 75%

Regular/Temporary:
Regular

Full Time/Part Time:
Full time

FLSA Exempt/Non-Exempt:
Nonexempt

Job Location City:
PRESIDIO

Job Location Address:
704 N ERMA AVE

Other Locations:
Alpine;
Marfa;
Presidio

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 monitor 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 Work may qualify for an increase at the point of hire.

• Receives cases from investigators after children are removed from their homes and placed in CPS conservatorship, and placed in care outside their homes.
• Determines each child’s needs and ensures that appropriate referrals for testing, evaluations, records, or further assessments are made, ensuring 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 through ongoing contact with parents, family members, and other individuals the child and family identify as important to them.
• Searches for potential kinship providers throughout the case and completes 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, refers parents to appropriate services to address the identified needs to move toward positive permanency, and discusses progress with parents toward making changes to behaviors that pose dangers to their children.
• 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, for placements as needed.
• Participates in meetings and conferences at times and places convenient for the family members as well as everyone involved in the case.
• Visits children monthly to assess the child’s sense of…