Clinical Training Manager

Position Summary

The Clinical Training Manager leads MonArk’s RBT training program and is responsible for ensuring team members are clinically prepared to provide safe, compassionate, ethical, and evidence-based care across all levels of client behavior.

This role oversees onboarding, skills training, competency assessment, remediation, and ongoing development while ensuring training reflects MonArk’s mission:

Empower our clients and team through compassionate, ethical, evidence-based care in a supportive environment where everyone can thrive.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and continuously improve MonArk’s RBT onboarding and clinical training programs.

• Establish clear competency standards for RBT readiness and independent client care.

• Train RBTs to recognize, prevent, de-escalate, and appropriately respond to mild, moderate, severe, and complex behaviors.

• Ensure staff understand and implement behavior intervention plans, reinforcement strategies, data collection, safety procedures, and ethical standards.

• Use modeling, role-play, Behavioral Skills Training, direct observation, and feedback to build practical clinical skills.

• Develop and maintain training materials, assessments, competency checklists, and remediation plans.

• Monitor training outcomes and identify opportunities to improve clinical readiness, treatment integrity, and safety.

• Partner with BCBAs and clinical leaders to address skill gaps and evolving training needs.

• Coach trainers and RBTs while promoting a culture of accountability, professional growth, and continuous learning.

Mission & Values

The Clinical Training Manager is expected to embed MonArk’s values into every aspect of training:

• Quality: RBTs demonstrate competency, not simply training completion.

• Teamwork: Staff collaborate, support one another, and seek help when needed.

• Communication: RBTs communicate clearly, escalate concerns, and respond to feedback.

• Patients First: Training prioritizes client dignity, safety, individualized care, and clinical progress.

Qualifications

• Strong knowledge of Applied Behavior Analysis and the RBT role.

• Experience training, coaching, supervising, or developing clinical staff.

• Experience supporting individuals with challenging or complex behaviors.

• Strong understanding of behavior intervention plans, reinforcement, de-escalation, treatment integrity, and ethical care.

• Strong facilitation, coaching, communication, and organizational skills.

• Ability to assess competency through direct observation and performance.

Preferred: Experience leading RBT training programs, managing other individuals and experience with Behavioral Skills Training or crisis-prevention training.

What Success Looks Like

Success means MonArk RBTs leave training clinically prepared, confident, compassionate, and capable of responding appropriately when situations become challenging.

The Clinical Training Manager helps ensure every RBT is someone MonArk can trust to represent its mission, demonstrate its values, and provide excellent care to clients and families.