Looking for your next favorite job?
Exploring job options?
Want to make a difference, but not sure where to start?
Consider a position as a behavior technician in one of the fastest-growing fields in healthcare.
If you’re like many people who thrive in a job as a behavior tech, you:
want to do something meaningful with your life
care about others
enjoy helping children and families
long for a reliable job with paid training and HUGE growth opportunities
What does a behavior technician do?
Behavior techs at LEARN Behavioral’s autism treatment providers work one-on-one with children and young adults with autism, helping them build skills in communication, play, socialization, and daily living.
What is autism? It’s a lifelong neurodevelopmental disability known formally as autism spectrum disorder (ASD). It usually appears in early childhood and can affect children’s language and communication skills, social skills, and self-regulation skills, which help us manage our emotions and behaviors in tough situations.
What kind of experience and training do behavior techs need?
This is the best part—although we prefer candidates with experience working with children, we only require:
a genuine desire to help children and their families
a steady supply of compassion, empathy, enthusiasm, kindness, goodwill, and reliability
—plus a few other things, like a high school diploma or college degree and eligibility to work in the United States.
At LEARN, all of our behavior techs undergo paid training to learn how to deliver applied behavior analysis (ABA) therapy. Considered the best form of autism therapy, ABA therapy involves play-based sessions and data gathering and analysis to help kids meet goals. Not a fan of math and data? Don’t worry—some of our best behavior techs made that claim early on. Once we showed them the ropes, they were hooked.