Training and Compliance Consultant

Six-Month Contract

About L’Arche North Carolina

L’Arche North Carolina provides residential supports to adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities in an intentional community where people with and without disabilities share life together.

Following the first year of operating its residential program, L’Arche NC seeks an experienced consultant to strengthen its quality, compliance, documentation, training, and risk-management systems.

This is a hands-on implementation role. The consultant will work alongside leadership and staff to develop sustainable systems that align with North Carolina licensing requirements, NC Innovations Waiver requirements, and recognized standards for person-centered services.

There may be an opportunity for this role to transition into ongoing contract or employment work.

Contract Scope

During the six-month engagement, the consultant will:

Compliance and Quality Systems

• Assess current policies, records, and operational practices.
• Develop a compliance calendar and internal review schedule.
• Establish systems for tracking compliance concerns and corrective actions.
• Create practical compliance tools, monitoring processes, and leadership reports.
• Organize evidence needed for licensing, Medicaid, accreditation, and other external reviews.

Documentation and Billing Integrity

• Establish standards for Residential Supports documentation.
• Strengthen service-grid, progress-note, ISP, goal-tracking, and electronic-record practices.
• Implement prebilling documentation reviews.
• Conduct record reviews and mock readiness assessments.
• Train leadership to monitor documentation quality and compliance.

Medication, Risk, Personnel, and Training Systems

• Review medication-administration, incident-management, and risk-management practices.
• Strengthen personnel-file, background-check, training, and competency systems.
• Develop staff training on regulatory requirements, documentation, medication, incident reporting, and accountability.
• Coach leadership and Residential Care Managers in ongoing compliance oversight.

Key Deliverables

By the end of the engagement, L’Arche NC expects to have:

• An annual compliance calendar and internal audit schedule.
• Sustainable documentation and prebilling review processes.
• Compliance-review tools for member, medication, personnel, and administrative records.
• A corrective-action and follow-up tracking system.
• Medication, incident, and risk-management review processes.
• A quality dashboard with meaningful compliance indicators.
• Staff training materials and a leadership coaching process.
• A transition plan assigning responsibility for ongoing compliance functions.

Required Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience managing compliance for a North Carolina-licensed 5600F or 5600C Alternative Family Living setting providing NC Innovations Waiver Residential Supports.
• Experience with North Carolina licensing and Medicaid waiver requirements.
• Experience supporting residential services for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
• Knowledge of Medicaid service-documentation and billing requirements.
• At least two years of Therap program leadership.
• Experience implementing compliance and quality-improvement systems.
• Strong project-management, training, and written-communication skills.
• Ability to combine system development with hands-on record review and implementation.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Alliance Health requirements and monitoring.
• Experience with NC Innovations Residential Supports Level 3.
• Experience preparing organizations for licensing, Medicaid, or accreditation reviews.
• Experience serving as a QP or supervising QP functions.
• Knowledge of DHSR, NC Medicaid, NCTracks, Tailored Plans, and CQL accreditation.
• Certified Investigator credential.
• Experience launching or expanding residential programs.

Proposal Requirements

Interested individuals or consulting firms should submit:

• A résumé or summary of relevant qualifications.
• A brief description of experience with North Carolina AFL and Innovations Waiver services.
• A preliminary approach and six-month work plan.
• Availability and proposed start date.
• A proposed hourly rate or total contract fee, including anticipated expenses.
• Two or three professional references.
• Optional examples of relevant tools or work products with confidential information removed.

Proposals are requested by August 20, 2026. L’Arche NC intends to review proposals and begin interviews promptly. Proposals received after the deadline may be considered until the position is filled.

Proposals should be emailed to:

Beverly Christian, Director of Operations

Email: [email protected]

Subject line: Training and Compliance Consultant Proposal

L’Arche North Carolina is an inclusive community where adults with and without intellectual disabilities share life and friendships. We seek to transform lives and model a more human society where everyone is of equal value. L’Arche North Carolina is a community of belonging for people with and without intellectual and developmental disabilities. We are working toward establishing the first L’Arche residential home in the Triangle area. Our Vision We envision a just society where diverse people with and without disabilities thrive. Our Mission L’Arche North Carolina cultivates inclusive communities where people across the spectrum of intellectual and developmental disability identities live and flourish together.