New tasks through job coaching

If your health has deteriorated, you may not be able to return to your old job. Job coaching provides you with a practical way to learn a new job.

What is job coaching and what does it entail?

Once you have received a positive advance decision on vocational rehabilitation from us, consider whether job coaching could be an option for you. Job coaching is one form of vocational rehabilitation. Job coaching enables you to learn new work tasks on the job.

You can participate in job coaching either at your current workplace or at an entirely new workplace. Together with your employer, you can tailor your job coaching to perfectly fit your needs as well as the needs of your workplace. During the job coaching, you can complete courses or a partial qualification, for example, in order to learn the skills required for your new duties.

The duration of job coaching is individual and its length is always separately determined. It depends on factors such as the content of the job coaching and your previous work experience, skills and educational background.

Job coaching plan

First, find out whether there are any tasks befitting your health that you could transition to at the workplace. You can bring up job coaching at the health negotiation, for example. At the negotiation, discuss your tasks during the job coaching, your working hours, guidance, required additional training as well as the duration of the job coaching.

The job coaching can also take place at an entirely new workplace.

Once your plan is finished, fill out the rehabilitation plan in MyPension to provide us with the details.

We will help you with planning

We can help you with job coaching and planning it. You can turn to your own rehabilitation specialist for help and, if required, also a career coach. Contact your rehabilitation specialist if you need help with drawing up your rehabilitation plan. To find the contact details of your rehabilitation specialist, view your preliminary decision under My Documents in MyPension.

Job coaching agreement

Once we have approved your rehabilitation plan, you can sign a job coaching agreement with your employer. The agreement is a form that your rehabilitation specialist will email to your employer. Send the agreement back to us when your job coaching begins.

The questions on the form include:

The contact information of your job coaching place
The time and duration of your job coaching
Your work duties
Your working hours
Information on any training you may receive
Your salary and your employer’s account number if the job coaching is paid

Once we have received the agreement and your job coaching has started, we will send you a decision regarding the rehabilitation allowance, which will be paid to your account.

Your income during job coaching

Your income depends on whether the job coaching is unpaid or paid.

If the job coaching is unpaid, we will pay you a rehabilitation allowance instead. We will also take out accident insurance for you and pay you a travel allowance.

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If the job coaching is paid, your employer can apply for the rehabilitation allowance for itself. The maximum amount of rehabilitation allowance received by your employer equals your salary. If your rehabilitation allowance is more than your salary, we will compensate you for the difference.

In paid job coaching, your employer will take out accident insurance for you. We will not pay recompense for travel expenses during paid job coaching because you can deduct them in taxation. Discuss your accrued leave during the job coaching with your employer.

The objective is to continue working

The goal of the job coaching is for you to return to a job that is suitable for your health. In the best-case scenario, you will be employed in the same job following the job coaching. If your employer is in a position to offer you a job after the job coaching, you can receive employment support via the employment services.