Assistant Clinical Director (BCBA)

The Learn Academy, formerly known as Creative Learning Center, is looking for a Assistant Clinical Director to join our team in Redwood City, CA!

The Learn Academy is a state-certified, K-12 private day school in California for children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and other neurological disorders.  Our comprehensive services — available across the South Bay, Peninsula, and San Francisco Bay Area — are designed to meet the unique needs of the whole student. We are a division of the LEARN Academy, a national leader in special education, academic intervention, and behavioral services for autism. 

The Assistant Clinical Director serves as site-based clinical leader of the ABA program while maintaining direct involvement with students and educational teams. This position oversees the quality of behavioral programming, provides clinical supervision, mentors BCBAs and behavior staff, collaborates with teachers and related service providers, and works directly with students requiring advanced behavioral support.

This position is ideal for a BCBA who enjoys leading by example, building strong relationships, and creating a positive, student-centered culture.

Job Specific Qualifications

• Monitoring: Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.
• Writing: Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience.
• Learning Strategies: Selecting and using training/instructional methods and procedures appropriate for the situation when learning or teaching new things.
• Judgment and Decision Making: Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
• Critical Thinking: Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems.
• Management of People Resources: Motivating, developing, and directing people as they work, identifying the best people for the job.
• Collaboration: Bringing others together and trying to achieve common goals and to reconcile differences.
  Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work: Developing specific goals and plans to prioritize, organize, and accomplish your work.

Essential Behaviors

• Clinical Competence: Continuously delivers clinical excellence in the services provided and support of others.
• Leadership: Job requires a willingness to lead, take charge, and offer opinions and direction.
• Integrity: Job requires modeling ethical behavior for colleagues.
• Self-Control: Job requires maintaining composure, keeping emotions in check, controlling anger, and avoiding aggressive behavior, even in very difficult situations.
• Client Centered: Job requires being constantly mindful of our mission to help children.

Supervisory Responsibilities

• This role supervises one or more individual contributors.

Requirements

• Master’s degree in Behavior Analysis, Psychology, Education, or related Field
• Minimum of three (3) years of ABA clinical experience; five (5) preferred
• Previous supervisory or leadership experience preferred
• Experience working in school-based ABA programs is highly desirable
• Current Board-Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA) certification, in good standing
• Crisis intervention certification
• LiveScan
• TB Clearance

Clinical Leadership

• Provide clinical oversight for all Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) services at the assigned school site(s).
• Maintain an active caseload of students requiring BCBA-level assessment, consultation, and intervention.
• Conduct Functional Behavior Assessments (FBAs) and develop Behavior Intervention Plans (BIPs).
• Review behavioral programming to ensure high-quality, evidence-based services.
• Monitor student progress and adjust interventions as needed.
• Ensure compliance with BACB Ethics Code, state regulations, and organizational standards.

Collaborative Student Support

• Work directly with students in classrooms and across school environments.
• Partner with teachers to develop practical, effective behavioral strategies.
• Provide coaching and modeling of interventions in real time.
• Participate in IEP meetings and multidisciplinary team meetings.
• Support crisis prevention and intervention planning.
• Collaborate with families to promote consistency between home and school.

Clinical Supervision & Staff Development

• Supervise and mentor BCBAs, BCaBAs, RBTs, and behavior technicians.
• Conduct classroom observations and provide constructive coaching.
• Support onboarding and professional growth of new clinical staff.
• Facilitate clinical trainings and professional development opportunities.
• Foster a collaborative, supportive, and growth-oriented team culture.

Program Quality & Compliance

• Monitor treatment fidelity and clinical outcomes.
• Review documentation for quality, accuracy, and compliance.
• Implement and maintain site-level clinical procedures in alignment with organizational clinical policy.
• Participate in quality assurance initiatives and continuous program improvement.
• Promote best practices throughout the school site.

Leadership & Collaboration

• Serve as a collaborative partner with administrators, teachers, therapists, and families.
• Assist with student placement, staffing, and clinical scheduling.
• Provide guidance for complex behavioral cases.
• Foster an environment where students and staff feel supported, respected, and successful.
• Lead through visibility, accessibility, and teamwork rather than solely administrative oversight.

Physical Demands, Work Environment, and Safety  

The physical requirements and work environment described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. In order to perform this position adequately, the individual must be able to carry out the following essential physical requirements. Reasonable accommodations may be made to allow qualified individuals with disabilities to perform essential physical requirements.  

• Physical Strength Abilities: Required to push, pull and lift up to 100 lbs.
• Physical Strength Abilities: Must be able to walk, stand and sit for long periods of time.
• Physical Strength Abilities: There may be times when you will need to exert control of clients within the guidelines of ABA.
• Flexibility, Balance and Coordination: Abilities related to the control of gross body movements. Required at times to reach up, stoop, kneel, balance, crouch or crawl.
• Reaction Time and Speed Abilities: Must have the ability to react quickly to the motion of clients and objects.
• Communication: Can communicate expressively and receptively, verbally and in writing.
• Speech Clarity: The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you.
• Problem Sensitivity: The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing that there is a problem.
• Selective Attention: The ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted.

CLC is part of LEARN Behavioral, a collective group of ABA providers dedicated to delivering collaborative care and nurturing the unique potential of children with autism and special needs in communities from coast-to-coast.

LEARN Behavioral is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.