Social Skills Assistant

KEY ESSENTIALS TO BEHAVIOR MANAGEMENT CORP Social Skills Assistant Pod Support & Open Play Role Social  Skills Assistant — Pod Support & Open Play Compensation

$18 – $21/hr

Full-time and Part-time positions available

Program Supervisor or BCBA

McDonough + The Sensory Spot (GA)

Clinic-based with open play and camp responsibilities

High school diploma preferred
· No prior certification required

The first person a family meets at KEBM isn't a therapist — it's the Social Skills Assistant. The one setting up the room, running open play, greeting a child by name on their second visit. We created this role because we refuse to treat entry-level as throwaway. The SSA is the first rung on a 14-step clinical pipeline we actually expect you to climb, and the first human connection a family has with our care.

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.

• 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.

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.

• 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.

As a Social Skills Assistant, you are the first face families meet and the energy behind every pod, open play session, and seasonal camp  support our clinical team during group sessions, run our Sensory Spot open play and camp programming (spring, winter, and summer breaks), and make sure the environment is set up for success — before, during, and after each session.

This is the entry door to our 14-step clinical pipeline.

• Support pod facilitators…