Behavior Technician/ABA Therapist

Job Description

Job Description

Do you enjoy playing with kids and helping them reach their potential? If so, this is the job for you!

Let us introduce you to a new career! We are looking for ABA Therapists or Behavior Technicians (BT) to work with children and adolescents with Autism and related disorders. As an ABA therapist, you will help kids with autism learn and grow!

No experience is required, we will provide you with all of the training you need to excel as an ABA Therapist. At APEX, therapists receive intensive training and ongoing supervision from a licensed clinician (BCBA). Each client brings the opportunity for a new experience.

Benefits:

• $1,000-$2,000 sign-on bonus!!!
• Paid training
• Paid Sick Time
• Competitive hourly rates
• Positive and supportive work culture
• Training and supervision by a BCBA
• Health insurance (eligibility requirements must be met)
• 401(k) (eligibility requirements must be met)
• We can provide required supervision hours for RBT, BCABA, and BCBA candidates
• Be part of a highly motivated team
• Organized raise structure based on experience and performance
• Opportunity for advancement and continuing education

Join the APEX Team and take your career to the next level!  

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General Overview :

We are seeking motivated, nurturing, and committed individuals who are interested in learning about ABA Therapy to increase independence and life skills for those diagnosed with Autism. Behavior Technicians will work with individuals of all ages. People with backgrounds in mental health, developmental disabilities, early intervention, and child development are perfect candidates for expanding their knowledge and experience within human services. We are very interested in people who are highly organized, committed to quality, and want to learn how to make a difference in a child's life.

Under the supervision of the Clinical Director and Behavior Analyst, the Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) Therapist is responsible for the direct implementation of individualized treatment goals and behavior protocols.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities Include :

• 1:1 in-home treatment plan implementation
• Implement individualized treatment plan, goals, and objectives as written and directed by a behavior analyst
• Data collection and maintaining appropriate documentation
• Provide educational and intellectual, emotional, and social growth instruction to an assigned client with support from the behavior analyst
• Provide intensive behavioral intervention services to assigned client

Qualifications :

• Bachelor's degree in Psychology, Special Education, or a related field is preferred
• Associate’s degree, or at least 60 credits, in a related field
• Associated degree, or at least 60 credits, in an unrelated field and 300 documented hours working with children
• Experience working with children is required

  Medical Information Required: 

• Physical dated within the last year. 
• Documentation that you have received, or have immunity to, the MMR vaccine
• Documentation of a negative TB test. 

Schedule : We have both part-time and full-time positions available. Our available positions are between 10 to 30 hours per week, usually between 8:00 a.m. - 7: 00 p.m., and run year-round. The schedule is usually Monday through Friday. 

Locations : Currently our program locations included placements in Boston and the surrounding suburbs such as;

• West Roxbury
• Boston
• Roxbury
• Dorchester
• Jamaica Plain
• Brookline
• Newton
• Waltham
• Medford
• Malden
• Melrose
• Somerville
• Cambridge
• Everett
• Woburn
• Natick
• Lawrence