Managing Consultant - Post-Acute Services
Job Family:
Strategy & Transformation Consulting
Travel Required:
Clearance Required:
What You Will Do:
Guidehouse is seeking an experienced healthcare consulting professional with post-acute care consulting experience. The candidate must have hands-on prior clinical and operations management experience in multiple post-acute settings including but not limited to home care, hospice, skilled nursing facilities, virtual/remote care, and/or inpatient rehabilitation, as well as be familiar with inpatient transitions of care issues. Experience in developing post-acute network strategies and value-based reimbursement models (e.g., bundled payments, MSSP, ACOs) is also desired.
You will:
Understand post-acute care workflows and be able to perform operational process assessments
Articulate key process issues in the continuum of care, and how delays in transitioning to post-acute settings can impact acute care environments
Identify process opportunities in discharge planning from the hospital setting to post-acute services, including assessment processes to streamline discharge from post-acute services to the community/home
Redesign various post-acute programs and services including organizational structure, job descriptions, development of teams, policies, and processes
Manage client engagements and day to day relationships to timeline, scope, and budget
Oversee Senior Consultants, and Consultants
Draft client deliverables, including synthesizing the strategic, financial and operational implications of analyses and recommended changes
Assist with data acquisition, integration and analysis to support a wide range of payer and provider analytics including financial analysis, clinical, and operational benchmarking
What You Will Need:
A Bachelor’s degree from accredited university, preferably in a clinical area such as therapy or nursing
Current licensure related to degree obtained
5 or more years of experience in post-acute clinical operations, transitions of care related work, and/or throughput experience in a provider setting, some of which is at the management level
5 or more years of healthcare consulting firm experience and/or a combination of industry and consulting experience
Knowledge of current trends including the impact of COVID 19 upon post-acute care, strategic positioning of post-acute programs and services and implications of healthcare reform initiatives (e.g., payment reform)
Proficient in Excel, Word, and PowerPoint skills, and ability to independently produce documents or aptitude to develop this level of skill within a defined period of time
Flexible, positive, clear interpersonal and communication skills with ability to facilitate the exchange of information within all levels of GH as well as a provider-based client organization
Analytical skills related to independently interpreting, preparing, and analyzing budget and workload data, LOS information, post-acute performance analysis, comparisons with relevant federal and/or other performance-based data.
Ability to develop and monitor relevant performance metrics at all levels
Knowledge of, and familiarity with, relevant IT solutions and databases
Knowledge of and ability to ensure and promote consistent, quality oriented, national leading practices in all clinical operations recommendations
Capacity to adapt and lead others to understand and accept values, strategies, goals, and plans in response to changing business conditions
Ability and willingness to travel as much as necessary.
What Would Be Nice To Have:
Graduate degree
Additional licensure, such as a Health Facility Administrator’s license
Previous strategy consulting experience
Demonstrates understanding of post-acute care operations; able to perform operational assessments
Demonstrates understanding of strategic positioning of post-acute programs and services, including implications of healthcare reform initiatives (e.g., payment reform)
Understands post-acute reimbursement methodology
Ability to articulate an understanding of the continuum of care, including acute, post-acute, and community-based services
Ability to assess and recommend best practices related to post-acute venues of care
Experience in transitions of care work, addressing prevention of readmissions, and care coordination
Track record of expense reduction assessments and/or implementations and/or improvements in capacity/throughput for care delivery settings
Assessment of provider organizations facing capacity and throughput issues
Demonstrates understanding of discharge planning from the hospital setting to post-acute services, including pre-admission assessment processes
Involvement in redesign of post-acute programs and services including organizational structure, job descriptions, development of teams, and policies and processes for performance
Experience in redesigning post-acute clinical operations and change management
Experience related to readmission prevention strategies within the post-acute environment
Experience in managing projects, ideally as a consultant.
Experience with and understanding of continuum care management.
***This is a pipeline requisition. Applicants will be considered for other positions similar to this opportunity***
The annual salary range for this position is $102,000.00-$170,000.00. Compensation decisions depend on a wide range of factors, including but not limited to skill sets, experience and training, security clearances, licensure and certifications, and other business and organizational needs.
What We Offer:
Guidehouse offers a comprehensive, total rewards package that includes competitive compensation and a flexible benefits package that reflects our commitment to creating a diverse and supportive workplace.
Benefits include:
Medical, Rx, Dental & Vision Insurance
Personal and Family Sick Time & Company Paid Holidays
Position may be eligible for a discretionary variable incentive bonus
Parental Leave and Adoption Assistance
401(k) Retirement Plan
Basic Life & Supplemental Life
Health Savings Account, Dental/Vision & Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
Short-Term & Long-Term Disability
Student Loan PayDown
Tuition Reimbursement, Personal Development & Learning Opportunities
Skills Development & Certifications
Employee Referral Program
Corporate Sponsored Events & Community Outreach
Emergency Back-Up Childcare Program
Mobility Stipend
About Guidehouse
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