Ask us about our four-day work week option (full-time, 36 hours plus 5 weeks of PTO)!
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The flexibility of an in-home BCBA. The support of a clinic-based BCBA. The benefits of a school-based BCBA.
Most BCBAs are told there are three roads: in-home, clinic, or a school district. There is a fourth one that many programs never mention, and it combines the best parts of the other three. Consulting!
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What does a BCBA Consultant actually do?
You will NOT: carry a fixed caseload of direct-service clients, or bill back-to-back sessions to hit a quota.
You will: step in to support the teams already in a person's life (e.g., teachers, direct support professionals, and caregivers). You will build practical programs, train the people doing the day-to-day work, and follow the data to see what is working. You are the clinical expert people call when they are stuck, and your job is to help each team you work with get better at what they do.
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A Day In The Life
No two days look identical, but a typical one might look something like this:
- 9am: A morning consult at a public elementary school, reviewing progress on a student's behavior plan with their teacher and adjusting the program based on the last two weeks of data.
- 11am: Our weekly clinical team meeting, where the whole BCBA team troubleshoots real cases together.
- 2pm: Updating graphs and reviewing data across your cases from home.
- 4pm: An afternoon check-in at an adult day support program, helping staff problem-solve a goal that has plateaued.
Additionally, you set your own consult schedule (weekly, bi-weekly, monthly, or as-needed) around what each case actually requires.
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Why This Role Is Different
- Experience working with a variety of people and diagnoses. We consult in public elementary schools and with adult services, including group homes and day supports. Our caseloads are not autism-only. You will work across a range of diagnoses, ages, and settings, which keeps the work interesting and makes you a more versatile clinician. If you have felt boxed in by a single population, this is a way out of that.
- Built-in mentorship. You will get weekly supervision from an experienced BCBA mentor plus our weekly clinical team meeting. You are never working through a hard case alone.
- A BCBA-only model. We keep weekly billable-hour requirements low on purpose. That means less production pressure and more room to think about your cases.
- Real flexibility. Autonomy to build your schedule, four-day work week option, and 5 weeks of PTO
- Values first. We are committed to ethical, high-quality behavior services and a collaborative, friendly team. That commitment is the reason our model is built the way it is.
The private-equity ABA model treats BCBAs as billable-hour machines and clients as revenue. That is why the caseloads are brutal and the turnover is constant. We are the opposite: clinician-owned, sustainably paced, and here for the long term.
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Responsibilities
- Consult on cases with appropriate frequency and set a client consult schedule (weekly, bi-weekly, monthly, or as-needed)
- Develop client goals and select practical, useful measures to track
- Review data, monitor client progress, and keep graphs up to date
- Use a behavioral approach to intervention and make program updates as needed
- Provide staff, teacher, and caregiver training using the Behavioral Skills Training protocol
- Continuously evaluate goals as data and ongoing assessment indicate
- Follow up with clients whenever contacted
- Seek supervision, participate in professional development, and maintain professional, respectful boundaries with clients and coworkers
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Required education, experience, and qualifications
- BCBA certification from the BACB® and licensure by the Board of Medicine in the State of Virginia
- A thorough understanding of applied behavior-analytic strategies for assessment and treatment
- A minimum of three years' experience working directly with clients (autism, developmental disabilities, and/or other populations)
- Team-oriented, engaging, and personable
- Motivated to help people, interested in learning, and passionate about behavior analysis
Coming from an in-home, clinic, or school-based role and curious about consulting? We would like to hear from you.
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Compensation and benefits
$70,000 to $80,000 per year plus monthly bonus
- Health, dental, and vision insurance
- Life insurance
- Retirement plan
- Paid time off (5 weeks) plus four-day work week option
- Professional development assistance
- Tuition reimbursement
- Flexible schedule
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Learn more about us at our website: www.principledbehavior.com
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $70,000.00 - $80,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Dental insurance
- Flexible schedule
- Health insurance
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Professional development assistance
- Retirement plan
- Tuition reimbursement
- Vision insurance
Work Location: In person
