Managing Consultant - Post-Acute Services

Guidehouse • Chicago, IL

3d • Remote

About The Position

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.

Requirements

• 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.

Nice To Haves

• 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.

Responsibilities

• 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

Benefits

• Medical, Rx, Dental & Vision Insurance
• Personal and Family Sick Time & Company Paid Holidays
• 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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level