Pennant Services

Pennant Services is one of the most dynamic and progressive companies in the rapidly expanding senior living, home health, hospice, and home care industries. Affiliates of Pennant Services now operate 111 senior living, home health, hospice, home care, and provider services operations across 14 states and we are growing! These operations have no corporate headquarters or traditional management hierarchy. Instead, they operate independently with support from the “Service Center,” a world-class service team that provides the centralized clinical, legal, risk management, HR, training, accounting, IT and other resources necessary to allow on-site leaders and caregivers to focus squarely on day-to-day care and business issues in their individual agencies.

Something else that sets us apart from other companies is the quality of our most valuable resources – our people! We are dedicated to living out our culture as defined by our core values, “CAPLICO”:

Customer Second

Accountability

Passion for Learning

Love One Another

Intelligent Risk Taking

Celebrate

Ownership

By incorporating these principles at all levels of our organization, our people feel valued and excited about their impact on our service center team members and operational partners. Our culture fosters excellence both personally and professionally and promotes development that leads to continued success.

About the Opportunity:

Pennant Services is looking for a talented law student to join its in-house legal department team for a legal externship. The externship is designed to develop the skills and abilities of future attorneys and educate them about the responsibilities of working as in-house counsel. Externs will have the opportunity to learn about Pennant’s culture of CAPLICO and how the legal team furthers that purpose. Our externship program will expose students to the healthcare industry and allow them to obtain valuable skills while working under the direction and mentorship of licensed attorneys.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Conduct legal research projects on a wide range of topics such as: HIPAA, advanced directive, state and Federal regulatory and licensing compliance, Medicaid and Medicare issues, insurance coverage, employment law, professional liability, and contract law.
• Draft, review, and edit a variety of legal documents, including contracts.
• Assist team in updating and improving legal processes, trainings, and resources.
• Assist with management of medical and employment records requests and document subpoenas.

Education and Experience:

• Currently enrolled in a graduate Juris Doctor law program at an ABA accredited law school.
• Must have successfully completed 1 year of law school by commencement of externship.
• Interest in healthcare, employment, or regulatory law is preferred.

Competencies, Knowledge and Skills:

• Excellent written and research skills.
• Strong analytical skills to gather, organize, and summarize information.
• Ability to communicate clearly and concisely, both verbally and in writing.
• Effective organizational and time management skills.
• Positive attitude and desire to comply with the Pennant culture and Core Values: Compassion, Accountability, Passion to Learn, Love One Another, Intelligent Risk-taking, Customer Second, and Ownership.
• Externships are unpaid and applicants are subject to and must pass a background investigation.

Working Conditions:

• General office environment; may be required to sit or stand for extended periods of time.
• Time commitment expected is 35 hours per week for 8 weeks (Summer).
• Location in Eagle, Idaho, but flexible work schedule is available.

We are an equal opportunity employer committed to ensuring that all conditions and privileges of employment, including recruitment, hiring, evaluation, transfer, promotion, discipline, determination of compensation and/or benefits, and termination of employment, for all job classifications, are based on qualifications and work record. No employment decision is made, nor do we discriminate, on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex/pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, veteran status, or disability.

The employer for this position is stated in the job posting. The Pennant Group, Inc. is a holding company of independent operating subsidiaries that provide healthcare services through home health and hospice agencies and senior living communities located throughout the US. Each of these businesses is operated by a separate, independent operating subsidiary that has its own management, employees and assets. More information about The Pennant Group, Inc. is available at http://www.pennantgroup.com.