KEY ESSENTIALS TO BEHAVIOR MANAGEMENT CORP

Social Pod Clinician

Registered Behavior Technician (RBT)

Role

Social Pod Clinician — Registered Behavior Technician (RBT)

Compensation

$22 – $26/hr

Employment Type

Full-time and Part-time positions available

Reports To

Program Supervisor and/or BCBA

Location

McDonough + The Sensory Spot (GA)

Service Setting

Clinic, home, and community-based service settings available

Credential

Active RBT certification in good standing with the BACB (or within 90 days of hire) · High school diploma or GED · Clean background check

Why This Role Exists

Most ABA companies burn out RBTs within 18 months. The reasons are structural — solo cases, thin supervision, and the assumption that you'll figure it out. We designed KEBM around fixing each of those failures. A supervisor is always on-site. Clinical support is always available. Every RBT has a named next step in a 14-role pipeline. If you've already worked the bad version of this job, this one was built by people who studied why it broke.

About Us

We're a five-clinic ABA therapy company with four locations across Southern California and one in Georgia, founded in 2016 by a BCBA with 25+ years in the field. Our team of 68+ professionals delivers evidence-based therapy through our proprietary S.O.C.I.A.L. P.O.D.S. methodology — and our Sensory Spot locations prove that therapy can actually feel like play.

We serve every client who walks through our doors — insurance-funded, private pay, open play, and camp families alike. We're women-founded, minority-owned, and we don't sacrifice clinical quality for profit. If you want to work somewhere that's serious about outcomes and serious about its people, you're in the right place.

How S.O.C.I.A.L. P.O.D.S. Work

S.O.C.I.A.L. P.O.D.S. is our proprietary group ABA therapy methodology — a pod-based model where social skills, behavior intervention, and individualized goals are delivered inside a structured group dynamic. Here's how it works on the ground:

• Each pod has 3 to 6 clients with varied diagnoses — autism, ADHD, ADD, Down syndrome, developmental delays — grouped by age, skill level, and goal alignment.
• The facilitator-to-client ratio is 1:3 inside the pod.
• A supervisor is always on-site, and clinical support is always available in your pod. Your on-site supervisor is a Program Supervisor, BCaBA, or BCBA, and they move between pods providing real-time coaching, oversight, and support for challenging behaviors. You are never figuring it out alone.
• We use a push-in / pull-out model: group work happens inside the pod, and 1:1 intensive instruction pulls out when a client needs dedicated skill-building or behavior support.
• BCBAs and Program Supervisors move between pods providing real-time coaching, clinical oversight, and support for challenging behaviors.

Why this matters:

If you've worked anywhere that assigns a new RBT a difficult case and leaves them to figure it out — that's not what happens here. The pod is the support structure, built in.

Who We Serve

KEBM serves every client who walks through our doors — no tiers, no priority treatment, no "real clients vs. drop-ins." That means:

• Insurance-funded ABA clients (Medi-Cal, Medicare, commercial insurance)
• Private pay therapy clients
• Open play participants at our Sensory Spot locations
• Camp participants — spring break, winter break, summer, and any seasonal KEBM camp
• Consultation clients in adult residential and group home settings (Program Supervisor Master's level only)

A camp kid gets the same quality of care as an insurance client. An open play family gets the same respect as a full-time ABA family. If that feels natural to you, you're going to fit here. If the idea of treating any of those clients as less-than bothers you, this isn't the place.

The Role — What You'll Actually Do

As a Social Pod Clinician (RBT) at KEBM, you are the front line of behavior change. You deliver 1:1 and group ABA therapy across our S.O.C.I.A.L. P.O.D.S. model, implement individualized plans designed by BCBAs, and contribute real-time observations that shape how those plans evolve. You work across clinic, home, and community settings — and every pod you run has at least one other staff member in it. That's structural, not optional.

In this role, you'll:

• Implement individualized ABA programs — across clinic, home, and community settings. You're the person delivering the plan accurately, session after session.
• Deliver group therapy within S.O.C.I.A.L. P.O.D.S. — your pod, your clients, your data. Managing group dynamics while individualizing across 3 learners at a 1:3 ratio, with clinical support always available.
• Collect accurate data and analyze progress — toward individual client goals. You're not just recording — you're reading trends and flagging what the BCBA needs to see.
• Collaborate with BCBAs, Program Supervisors, and fellow pod members — you're part of a clinical team that meets, debriefs, and adjusts together. Not a solo practitioner.
• Support open play and camp programming — spring, winter, and summer camps are part of KEBM's full-client commitment. You show up for camp kids the same way you show up for insurance clients.
• Adjust interventions based on real-time response — not just when someone tells you to. Autonomy inside the clinical plan is expected; we train you to use it.

In your first 90 days, success looks like:

Caseload running cleanly, data defensible to any BCBA who reviews it, first mentorship of an SPL-BA underway, and your supervisor is already thinking about your Lead RBT pathway.

Who You Are

You might be perfect for this if:

• You hold your RBT certification — or you'll hold it within 90 days of hire. We'll support the timeline; the commitment has to come from you.
• You read data before you act on intuition — and you know the difference. Good RBTs are clinicians, not just implementers.
• You want a Lead RBT or Program Supervisor Trainee role — and you see KEBM's pipeline as the path to get there. Staying an RBT forever isn't the plan, for you or for us.
• You believe "never alone" is a feature — not a hedge. If you've worked somewhere that left RBTs solo with hard cases, you'll feel the difference here immediately.

Bonus points if you have:

• 1+ years of ABA experience in a clinical or in-home setting
• BCaBA pathway progress — graduate coursework, supervised hours accumulating
• Bilingual (Spanish)
• Crisis intervention training (CPI, Safety Care, PCM)

What You Get

Compensation

$22 – $26/hr — published transparently on this posting.

We don't play the "competitive compensation" game, and we don't bait candidates with the top of the band and pay the bottom. Where you land in the range depends on credential level, experience, and market — and we'll tell you exactly why during the offer conversation.

Benefits — Part-Time

Paid sick time (per state law) • CEU reimbursement for certification maintenance • Supervision hours for BCaBA/BCBA pathway candidates at no cost • Professional liability coverage • Ongoing S.O.C.I.A.L. P.O.D.S. methodology training • Priority access to full-time roles as they open

Growth

At KEBM, your next role isn't hypothetical. We built a 14-step clinical pipeline from Social Skills Assistant through Chief Clinical Director, and every seat has a real compensation band, a real scope of responsibility, and a real path to get there.

Your direct next step from this role is: Lead Social Pod Clinician (Lead/Senior RBT), typically within 12–18 months with strong performance; or Program Supervisor Trainee if you're pursuing your Master's.

Ask about it in the interview — we'll show you the map.

Culture

We run on the S.O.C.I.A.L. P.O.D.S. framework, which means structured collaboration — not chaos. Our leadership team (COO Lynda, Chief Clinical Director Maritza, Clinical Director Jazmin) actually leads, so you're not reporting into a black hole. Our CEO is a BCBA who built this from the ground up starting at $8.50/hour as a paraeducator in 1999 — she gets what your day looks like.

Flexibility

This role is clinic, home, and community-based service settings available. Full-time and Part-time positions available — schedules are built around session availability and are discussed during the offer conversation.

Physical Requirements

This role is physically active. You'll spend most of your day standing, walking, sitting on the floor, transitioning between activities, and occasionally responding to challenging behaviors.

• Frequent (4–8 hours): sitting, standing, walking, simple grasping, reaching (all directions), bending, twisting, kneeling, squatting
• Occasional (1–3 hours): keyboarding, fine manipulation, stairs, lifting or carrying 1–50 lbs
• Crisis readiness: the ability to respond appropriately to behaviors including elopement, aggression (hitting, kicking, spitting, throwing), and self-injury — with full training and supervisory backup

This is not desk work. But you are never handling it alone — the two-staff-per-pod rule exists specifically so physical and behavioral demands are shared.

What You'll Actually Encounter — The Honest Section

Most ABA job posts sanitize this part and then lose hires at day 30 when reality hits. We'd rather tell you now.

• Aggression — hitting, kicking, biting, scratching, throwing objects. It happens. Training and crisis protocols are in place; you'll never be expected to manage it alone.
• Elopement — clients running or leaving the session space. The clinic is designed to be safe; staff-to-client ratios are set to make elopement manageable.
• Self-injury — head-hitting, scratching, and similar behaviors. Protocols exist for every scenario, and BCBAs design individual plans that you'll be trained on.
• Non-compliance and task refusal — some sessions will test your creativity and persistence. You'll use reinforcement strategies and environmental adjustments to re-engage learners.
• Vocal stereotypy and scripting — repetitive vocalizations and echolalia. Understanding their function is part of the clinical picture.
• Sensory-seeking and sensory-avoidant behaviors — our Sensory Spot locations are designed with this in mind, but you'll still need to read sensory cues and adjust the environment on the fly.

Why we tell you this upfront:

Because we respect your decision-making. This work isn't for everyone — and that's okay. But for the right person, there's nothing more rewarding than helping a child build the skills that change the trajectory of their life. And you won't be doing it alone — a supervisor is always on-site, clinical support is always available, established crisis protocols are in place, and a team has your back.

The KEBM G-W-C Test

Three questions. Take 60 seconds with them before you apply. If you can answer all three with an honest "yes," send your resume today. If any one is a no, that's information too — we'd rather you filter yourself now than find out three months in.

1. Do you GET IT?

Do you understand what this role actually is — the real work, the hard days, the kids and families we serve? Not the idealized version. The actual job.

2. Do you WANT IT?

Not the paycheck. Not the title. The work itself. Do you want to do this specific job, with these specific clients, inside the S.O.C.I.A.L. P.O.D.S. model?

3. Do you have the CAPACITY?

Time, skill, emotional bandwidth, physical readiness. The capacity question is not whether you're smart or capable — it's whether your current life has room for this role to be done well.

How to Apply

Apply at the link in this posting, or send your resume and a short note about why this role caught your eye to info@keyessentialsbm.com. Questions before you apply? Call us at (909) 755-5220 — a real person will answer.

We review every application and respond to every candidate. You're not shouting into the void

Key Essentials to Behavior Management Corp is an equal opportunity employer. We are women-founded, minority-owned, and committed to hiring without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.