Managing Consultant - Post-Acute Services

About the role

Guidehouse is seeking an experienced healthcare consulting professional with post-acute care consulting experience. The ideal 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.

Responsibilities

• Guidepost healthcare consulting professionals in post-acute care workflows and 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
• Aid with data acquisition, integration and analysis to support a wide range of payer and provider analytics including financial analysis, clinical, and operational benchmarking

Requirements

• 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 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
• Willingness to travel as much as necessary

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 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
• Willingness to travel as much as necessary

Skills

• Understanding of post-acute care operations; able to perform operational assessments
• Understanding of strategic positioning of post-acute programs and services, including implications of healthcare reform initiatives (e.g., payment reform)
• Understanding of post-acute reimbursement methodology
• Understanding of the continuum of care, including acute, post-acute, and community-based services
• 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
• Experience in expense reduction assessments and/or implementations and/or improvements in capacity/throughput for care delivery settings
• Experience in assessing provider organizations facing capacity and throughput issues
• 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

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.