Welcome to Little Otter!

Little Otter is a childhood mental health company that focuses on the mental health of young children and their parents. Little Otter’s mission is to bring expert care for children’s mental health to every home. With both everyday wellness tools and our award-winning online child therapy app, we’ve empowered more than ten thousand therapists and hundreds of thousands of clients across the country in the healthcare and insurance landscape.

The Role

Reports to: Manager of Integrated Care

We are looking for BCBAs who want to build a new way of delivering high-quality, evidence-based behavioral health care because they are dissatisfied with the status quo. We want providers who are excited to work at an early-stage startup and impact the way we provide exceptional virtual mental healthcare to children and families.

This is a W-2, full-time position. **we also have part-time available**

Base pay: $60,000-$67,000 annually*

base pay reflects minimum expectations of an average of 20 completed sessions per week. Exact compensation may vary based on skills, experience, and location.

Incentive pay: Potential to earn $70 per session for any additional sessions above the average of 10 completed per week. *Incentive pay is per additional session exceeding the base expectation schedule.*

Schedule: You have the flexibility to create your own schedule. As long as you maintain our minimum expectation, your scheduling preferences are up to you. Providers have had the most success booking sessions after 3pm PST.

Responsibilities:

• Provide high-quality, evidence-based 1:1 parenting sessions via the Little Otter platform for families and caregivers (children ages 0-14 years old)
• Develop observable and measurable goals for families in collaboration with therapists, psychiatrists, and other parenting specialists
• Develop care plans to address specific family concerns and challenges
• Help parents track success and setbacks, provide resources, strategies, and feedback
• Deliver care to families through video and chat, providing caregiver education, caregiver training, and 1-on-1 coaching
• Complete clinical documentation using the Little Otter platform for each patient including intake notes, progress notes, treatment plans
• Participate in regular collaborative care meetings
• Meet regularly with the Little Otter leadership team to share experiences and insights, give feedback, and contribute to the development of Little Otter

About You:

• Masters degree in Child Development, Education, Applied Behavior Analysis, Psychology, Social Work, Counseling, or related field
• Holds a Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA) credential
• Experience providing caregiver training and evidence based interventions to caregivers of children ages 0-14 years old
• Comfortable with technology and interested in incorporating technology solutions into clinical care
• Comfortable delivering video-based care
• Believe strongly in multi-disciplinary care and measurement-based methods and interested in learning and collaborating with the best early childhood mental health professionals in the country
• Self-directed and feel comfortable in a startup environment that is changing and growing quickly
• At least 2 years of experience as a BCBA
• Model empathetic support and feedback when you work with parents
• Excellent communicator (verbal and written)
• Loves working with children and families and is passionate about mental health!

Little Otter Benefits & Perks

• Medical, Dental, and Vision for you and your dependents
• Coverage begins on your first day of employment
• Health Flexible Spend Accounts (FSA)
• Flexible PTO
• We observe 11 Federal Holidays: New Year’s Day, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, Presidents' Day, Memorial Day, Juneteenth, Independence Day, Labor Day, Indigenous Peoples' Day, Veterans Day, Thanksgiving Day, and Christmas Day.
• Parental leave: For any new child, 12 weeks of paid leave with an additional 4 weeks of unpaid leave. Can be taken anytime within the first year of the child being born/adopted/etc
• Learning and Development: $500/year towards continuing education required for maintenance of certificates or licenses
• Company provided laptop
• $400 stipend to outfit your home office
• Annual fees to maintain certificates or licenses
• Malpractice insurance covered by Little Otter

Job Types: Full-time, Part-time

Pay: $60,000.00 - $67,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Paid time off
• Referral program

Compensation package:

• Bonus opportunities

Schedule:

• 10 hour shift
• 4 hour shift
• 8 hour shift
• Monday to Friday

Application Question(s):

• Are you a BCBA?

Location:

• Los Angeles, CA (Preferred)

Work Location: Remote