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Location: Needham, Sudbury & Belmont, MA
Schedule: Mon – Fri, 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM | Full-Time | In-Person
Salary: $45,000-$50,000
Reports to: Practice Manager
Benefits: Health Insurance, Vision, Dental, PTO
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Child Therapy Boston is a growing mental health practice serving children, adolescents, and families across our Needham, Sudbury, and Belmont locations. We are seeking a friendly, organized, and dependable Administrative Coordinator to support our families and the day-to-day administrative needs of our practice.
This position is an excellent opportunity for someone who enjoys working with people, staying organized, and being part of a collaborative team. The Administrative Coordinator will be an important first point of contact for families and will help ensure that our offices and client experience remain welcoming, organized, and professional.
Responsibilities
- Answer incoming phone calls and respond to client and family emails in a timely and professional manner.
- Provide excellent customer service to clients, families, visitors, clinicians, and coworkers.
- Respond to routine questions about practice services, policies, scheduling, and procedures.
- Assist with initial screening of prospective clients and determine whether they appear to be an appropriate fit for the practice based on established guidelines.
- Assist with matching prospective clients with appropriate clinicians based on availability, location, age, and identified needs.
- Provide referrals and outside resources to prospective clients who are not an appropriate fit for the practice.
- Assist with scheduling, intake coordination, follow-up, and new client onboarding.
- Help maintain and follow up on prospective client and waitlist information.
- Use practice management and administrative software, including SimplePractice, Outlook, OneDrive, Word, and Excel.
- Maintain accurate client and administrative information and handle confidential information appropriately.
- Help keep all office spaces clean, organized, stocked, and welcoming, including waiting areas, common spaces, game rooms, and clinician offices.
- Monitor office supplies and communicate when items need to be ordered or replaced.
- Assist with basic office organization and daily office readiness.
- Participate in staff meetings and collaborate with clinicians and administrative staff.
- Assist the Practice Manager with administrative tasks, projects, and other duties as needed.
Qualifications
Required:
- High school diploma or equivalent; college degree preferred.
- At least 2-4 years of administrative, customer service, healthcare, or related experience.
- Excellent communication and customer service skills.
- Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
- Ability to manage multiple tasks and priorities.
- Professional, friendly, and empathetic communication style.
- Basic to intermediate computer skills and comfort learning new software.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Outlook, Word, and Excel.
- Ability to maintain confidentiality and handle sensitive information appropriately.
- Ability to work independently while also being a collaborative team member.
- Flexibility and willingness to assist with a variety of administrative tasks.
- Ability to work in person Monday–Friday, 9:00 AM–5:00 PM across our Needham, Sudbury, and Belmont offices.
Preferred:
- Experience working in a healthcare, pediatric, behavioral health, or mental health setting.
- Experience working with children and families.
- Experience with electronic health records or practice management software, particularly SimplePractice.
- Familiarity with healthcare referrals or scheduling.
- The Ideal Candidate
- We are looking for someone who is warm, organized, dependable, proactive, and genuinely enjoys helping people. The ideal candidate takes pride in creating a positive experience for families, keeps things organized, communicates well with coworkers, and is comfortable jumping in to help wherever needed.
The Ideal Candidate
We are looking for someone who is warm, organized, dependable, proactive, and genuinely enjoys helping people. The ideal candidate takes pride in creating a positive experience for families, keeps things organized, communicates well with coworkers, and is comfortable jumping in to help wherever needed.
Location: Needham, Sudbury & Belmont, MA
Position Type: Full-Time (40 hours/week)
Schedule: Includes one weekend day
Starting Salary: $63,000
Salary Once Full Caseload Expectations Are Met: $70,000
Licensure Requirements: Must hold an LCSW or be pre-LMHC
Benefits: Health Insurance, Vision, Dental, PTO
Experience & Qualifications
- 2+ years of clinical experience working with both children and adolescents
- Strong, hands-on experience leading and/or co-leading therapeutic groups
- Group therapy is a significant component of this position, and the successful candidate should be comfortable taking on a substantial group caseload.
- Experience providing individual therapy to children and adolescents
- Experience working with children and families with a range of social-emotional, behavioral, and mental health needs
- Creative and flexible approach to treatment planning and clinical work
- Ability to develop engaging, thoughtful, and developmentally appropriate interventions
- Strong clinical judgment, communication, and collaboration skills
- Experience working with children in settings such as camps, schools, after-school programs, arts programs, or other youth-focused environments is a plus
Responsibilities
Clinical Responsibilities
- Provide individual therapy to children and adolescents
- Plan and run/co-lead therapeutic groups
- Develop engaging and developmentally appropriate therapeutic activities and interventions
- Maintain timely and accurate clinical documentation
- Participate in collaborative treatment planning
- Provide thoughtful, individualized care to children and families
- Supervision & Collaboration
- Meet regularly with interns to support group planning
- Participate in individual and group supervision
- Collaborate with interns and other members of the clinical team
- Participate in administrative and staff meetings as needed
Practice Support
- In addition to clinical responsibilities, this role includes contributing to the overall functioning and growth of the practice. Responsibilities may include:
- Assisting with screening phone calls
- Supporting intake coordination
- Participating in community outreach and marketing initiatives
- Contributing to practice-wide administrative tasks as needed
- We are a collaborative, team-oriented practice, and all clinicians are expected to contribute to the administrative and operational needs that help ensure high-quality care and smooth practice functioning.
Benefits
- Health Insurance: 60% employer contribution or $400/month health insurance stipend
- Vision & Dental Insurance
- 3 weeks of vacation
- One week must coincide with a school vacation week
- Two consecutive weeks may only be taken once per year
The Executive Functioning Specialist provides individualized, strengths-based support to children and adolescents who experience challenges with executive functioning skills, including organization, planning, time management, emotional regulation, flexible thinking, task initiation, working memory, and self-monitoring.
Working collaboratively with families, schools, therapists, and other providers, the Executive Functioning Specialist helps children develop practical strategies that increase independence, confidence, and success across home, school, and everyday life.
This is a unique opportunity to play a foundational role in building and shaping a growing executive functioning program within a collaborative child mental health practice. The ideal candidate will have experience providing executive functioning support and enjoy the opportunity to help develop programming, systems, and resources as this area of the practice expands.
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Status: Full-Time or Part-Time
Compensation: Fee-For-Service – Competitive and based on experience
Location: Primarily in-person in Needham, Sudbury, and Belmont, MA
Schedule: Flexible weekday hours, including afternoon and evening availability
Key Responsibilities
Executive Functioning Support
Provide individualized executive functioning support for elementary-aged children, middle school students, and adolescents. Develop personalized strategies based on each child’s individual needs, strengths, and goals.
Support clients in developing skills related to:
- Organization and planning
- Prioritization and time management
- Task initiation and follow-through
- Working memory
- Flexible thinking and problem-solving
- Emotional regulation
- Self-monitoring
- Self-advocacy
- Help clients apply executive functioning strategies across home, school, and daily life to promote greater independence and confidence.
- Adapt strategies based on each child’s learning profile and individual needs.
Parent & Family Collaboration
- Partner closely with parents and caregivers to support skill development outside of sessions.
- Provide education, resources, and practical tools that help families reinforce executive functioning strategies at home.
- Communicate regularly with families regarding progress, goals, and recommendations.
Collaboration
- Collaborate with therapists, schools, educational teams, and other providers when appropriate.
- Participate in case consultation and interdisciplinary collaboration within the practice.
- Maintain timely documentation and client records in accordance with practice policies.
Program Development
- Help develop and expand executive functioning services within Child Therapy Boston.
- Contribute ideas for workshops, parent education, groups, and community programming.
- Participate in community outreach and professional networking opportunities as the program grows.
- Collaborate with leadership to develop resources, systems, and best practices for the executive functioning program.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience working as an Executive Functioning Coach, Executive Functioning Specialist, or in a similar executive functioning support role strongly preferred.
- Experience developing and implementing individualized executive functioning strategies and plans for children and adolescents.
- Experience working with elementary-aged children, adolescents, and families.
- Master’s degree in Speech-Language Pathology, Occupational Therapy, School Psychology, Counseling, Social Work, Special Education, Psychology, Education, or a related field preferred.
- Strong understanding of executive functioning development and evidence-based strategies.
- Experience supporting children with ADHD, executive functioning challenges, anxiety, learning differences, autism spectrum disorder, traumatic brain injury, or other neurodevelopmental differences.
- Experience collaborating with parents, caregivers, schools, and other providers.
- Excellent communication, organization, and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to work collaboratively as part of a multidisciplinary team.
- Creative, flexible, and strengths-based approach to supporting children and families.
