Managing Consultant – Post-Acute Services

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Managing Consultant in post-acute services for Guidehouse, a healthcare consulting firm. Engaging in client management and operational assessments in post-acute care settings.

Responsibilities:

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

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.

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