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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

About Guidehouse

Guidehouse is an Equal Opportunity Employer–Protected Veterans, Individuals with Disabilities or any other basis protected by law, ordinance, or regulation.

Guidehouse will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable law or ordinance including the Fair Chance Ordinance of Los Angeles and San Francisco.

If you have visited our website for information about employment opportunities, or to apply for a position, and you require an accommodation, please contact Guidehouse Recruiting at 1-571-633-1711 or via email at [email protected]. All information you provide will be kept confidential and will be used only to the extent required to provide needed reasonable accommodation.

All communication regarding recruitment for a Guidehouse position will be sent from Guidehouse email domains including @guidehouse.com or [email protected].  Correspondence received by an applicant from any other domain should be considered unauthorized and will not be honored by Guidehouse.  Note that Guidehouse will never charge a fee or require a money transfer at any stage of the recruitment process and does not collect fees from educational institutions for participation in a recruitment event. Never provide your banking information to a third party purporting to need that information to proceed in the hiring process.

If any person or organization demands money related to a job opportunity with Guidehouse, please report the matter to Guidehouse’s Ethics Hotline. If you want to check the validity of correspondence you have received, please contact [email protected]. Guidehouse is not responsible for losses incurred (monetary or otherwise) from an applicant’s dealings with unauthorized third parties.

Guidehouse does not accept unsolicited resumes through or from search firms or staffing agencies. All unsolicited resumes will be considered the property of Guidehouse and Guidehouse will not be obligated to pay a placement fee.