[Hiring] Managing Consultant - Post-Acute Services @Guidehouse

Role Description

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.

• 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.

Qualifications

• A Bachelor’s degree from an 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 the 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.

Requirements

• 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.

Benefits

• 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.