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BCBA at Bright Day Pediatric Therapies | Center-Based | No Travel | Full-Time or Part-Time

Location: NW Washington, DC (Palisades/Georgetown) |15–20 minutes from NoVA, Bethesda, Silver Spring, and most of DC

Compensation: $90,000 - $115,000 annually for full-time (40 hours/wk), plus performance-based bonus

Perks: Free onsite garage parking and free snacks

Position Type: Full-Time or Part-Time, onsite and center-based

License and Experience: BCBA certification, with at least 1 year experience as a BCBA

Website: http://www.brightdaykids.com

Benefits:

• Paid holidays and time off, plus DC Paid Family Leave Program (up to 10 weeks)
• Health care stipend, 401(k)
• CEU stipend and recertification fee reimbursement
• Performance bonus-eligible position
• Leadership opportunities – we promote from within
• Mentorship and clinical support
• Interdisciplinary collaboration with SLPs and OTs as we expand those services
• Bonus incentive program for employee referrals
• Regular onsite and offsite training and social events

About Bright Day

Bright Day Pediatric Therapies was built to offer a better way to deliver ABA – for children, for families, and for clinicians. We are a new clinic in NW Washington, DC, currently providing ABA Therapy and expanding to include Speech and Occupational Therapy.

Sessions at Bright Day are active, play-based, and built around connection. Therapy here doesn't look like drills at a table. It looks like building a tower, raising a hand to share at circle time, or helping a child find a new way to ask for what they need, with clinical intention behind each interaction.

About the BCBA Role

Bright Day Pediatric Therapies seeks BCBAs to join our vibrant, interdisciplinary practice located in Washington, DC. Our team delivers a supportive, transparent, and sustainable practice environment that ensures work-life balance for our clinicians, as well as autonomy in their practice and treatment decisions. Clinically, we focus on producing the highest-quality programs for our clients, leading to consistent progress and best-in-class outcomes. Our approach is grounded in cultural responsiveness, collaboration, empowerment, and integrity, with a spotlight on reducing the case management burden that families carry. Bright Day is 100% center-based, which means less time driving and more time for focus and impact with clients. We actively foster the connection between therapists, clients, and families at hand-offs, through trainings and events, because we believe these relationships help children carry new skills into their daily life. Our team is passionate about making access to high-quality, coordinated care simpler for families, and about building sustainability for our clinicians.

Our space is newly renovated, inclusive, and built specifically for children with sensory processing challenges. We have free onsite garage parking for staff and families. Our clinic is approximately 15 minutes’ drive from Arlington, Alexandria, Chevy Chase, Bethesda, Upper NW neighborhoods, and Downtown DC. Learn more at http://www.brightdaykids.com.

How Our Model Works

• Center-based, no travel. Your whole caseload is under one roof, and you supervise in the room alongside the RBT and client.
• Collaborative to Our Core. Our whole clinical team works side by side in one clinic every day. You watch programs run live and fix problems the same day, and we share ideas openly and pitch in for each other. Our RBTs work with a varied mix of children in 2–4 hour blocks, so a single cancellation doesn’t wipe out their paycheck. They stay with us, so you spend less time retraining new staff.
• Peers built into the program. Children spend part of their day in structured small groups, so you can write peer and social goals and your clients can practice them with real peers. That’s hard to do in home-based ABA.
• Documentation that doesn’t get in the way. We use Passage Health, one of the industry’s most intuitive EMRs. It’s built for real-time data collection that’s quick and unobtrusive, so you and your team are present with the child, not buried in a laptop.
• Growth for You: We provide clinic-level CEU subscriptions, cover the cost of training related to your work in the clinic, and hold quarterly professional-development reviews to support your career goals.
• Clear Workload Expectations: Caseloads vary based on the complexity of each child’s needs and the number of hours each child spends in the clinic. Full-time means 40 hours per week, excluding lunch: about 30 billable clinical hours, with the remaining time set aside for administrative work such as RBT training, reviews, session-note checks. We set these expectations so the role stays sustainable over the long term.
• Administrative support. Our Executive Director and Clinic Coordinator handle authorizations, billing, and scheduling, so your time goes to clinical work.
• One Place for Families: We aim to make high-quality care simpler for families. Children receive coordinated services under one roof, and our team helps carry the case-management load that often falls on parents.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop individualized treatment plans and progress reports, behavior improvement plans, and functional behavior assessments, in accordance with payer and BACB requirements.
• Implement and oversee ABA treatment plans for clients, including data analysis and program modification.
• Lead, supervise, and mentor a team of RBTs in the delivery of 1:1 ABA therapy. Assist in deepening their knowledge and skill base, overcoming challenges and improving their client interactions. Complete RBT competency assessments and performance reviews.
• Review RBT session notes weekly for accuracy, completeness, and payer compliance.
• Analyze data to monitor client outcomes and update treatment plans to achieve consistent progress.
• Provide training to family members and other client stakeholders in accordance with treatment plans and BACB standards of care.
• Coordinate with clinic’s speech-language pathologists and occupational therapists to enhance outcomes across specialties.
• Communicate clearly and consistently with families and caregivers.
• Ensure compliance with BACB ethical guidelines.
• Ensure documentation is prepared timely and meets ethical, payor, and regulatory requirements.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in ABA, psychology, special education, or related field
• Board Certified by BACB and in good standing with a clean background check
• Minimum 1 years’ experience as a BCBA
• Availability for a later shift (such as 10am–6pm) is welcome but not required
• Background in autism strongly preferred
• Solid communication skills, organizational skills, and openness to feedback
• Passion for mentoring others and building strong systems of care
• Valid Driver’s License
• Physical requirements: bend, kneel, sit on floor, go from sitting to standing unassisted, lift up to 50 lbs.

How to Apply

To apply, please submit the following:

• Your resume
• A short cover note introducing yourself
• Your desired schedule or weekly availability

Our practice is passionate about making access to high-quality care simpler and more supportive for families, and to building sustainability for our clinicians.