Social Skills Assistant

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Social Skills Assistant
Pod Support & Open Play
Role
Social Skills Assistant — Pod Support & Open Play
Compensation
$18 – $21/hr
Employment Type
Full-time and Part-time positions available
Reports To
Program Supervisor or BCBA
Location
Indio + The Sensory Spot (CA)
Service Setting
Clinic-based with open play and camp responsibilities
Credential
High school diploma preferred · No prior certification required
Why This Role Exists
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.
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 Skills Assistant, you are the first face families meet and the energy behind every pod, open play session, and seasonal camp at KEBM. You 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.
In this role, you'll:
Support pod facilitators during group sessions — prepare materials, manage transitions, deliver reinforcement, and help keep the group dynamic moving.
Run open play and camp programming — spring break, winter break, summer, and any seasonal KEBM camp. This is real social skills work delivered in a playful format.
Build rapport with every client who walks through the door — insurance-funded, private pay, open play drop-in, or camp family. Same energy, same respect, same quality of care.

Employment type
Part-Time

Work arrangement
No