Job Family:Strategy & Transformation Consulting
Travel Required:Up to 75%+
Clearance Required:None
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
