Long-Term Services and Support Specialist

August 14

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Altarum

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Solutions to Advance Health

Applied Research and Analytics • Health IT • Continuing Education • Medicare and Medicaid • Behavioral Health

201 - 500

Description

• Provide support for continued implementation and enhancement of Altarum’s comprehensive culture change projects. • Act as a liaison for partnered nursing homes: maintaining collaboration and engagement with them. Including assistance with monthly data submissions, creatively evaluate and eliminate obstacles to data tracking and submission, and craft resources and materials to support nursing homes in their culture change efforts. Previous training experience is helpful. • Lead qualitative interviews and focus groups with nursing home residents, staff and families and distill qualitative data for publications. • Consolidate quantitative and qualitative data to inform partners' progress and identify areas to concentrate efforts to ensure forward momentum continues. • Identify and mitigate barriers that are inhibiting growth. • Monitor individual nursing home outcomes and ensure partners and project team members are well informed of their status and progress. • Assist in crafting publications and presentations that communicate evaluation findings to a range of audiences, including project partners, funders, advocates, and other key stakeholders. • Leverage Quality Assurance Performance Improvement principles to build sustainable models of culture change in partnered nursing homes. • Support development of reports, case studies, site visit summaries and other writing, as required • Provide additional project support as needed.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree and/or Master’s degree in a related field is preferred with at least 6 years of professional experience in health services or a related field • Strong interest in health care policy, long term services and supports, and health care service delivery • Knowledge of quality improvement frameworks and processes preferred, but not required. • Direct experience in residential long-term care settings preferred, but not required. • Demonstrated experience in population health-based research and evaluation. • Ability to synthesize data and research concisely in easy to access, plain language, materials for nursing home partners, residents, engaged caregivers, state leaders, and other audiences. • Desire to integrate research, technical, analytical, and consulting skills to serve the public good and improve human health