Job-office: service of supported employment

1. Job-office: service of supported employment

2. History • 1997 :‘supported employment’ started in Feniks. • We recognized that some of the clients could do more than their work in the day centre of Feniks. • Step by step Feniks tried to support clients into a job on the labour-market. • 2009: joboffice of feniks en regenboog are working together as one service.

4. Goal Supported employment wants to support people with a handicap who want to work voluntary within a normal working environment, outside the protected walls of care. • Individual question of a client • Real work To achieve a better quality of life .

6. Target group • Persons who want to work, but cannot cope with the pressure and responsibility of ‘normal or regular’ work. • Different people with different kinds of handicaps.

7. Characteristics Supported employment gives a chance to be active engaged within the society. • Personal/individual support • Social integration • Social network

9. Method ... Assessment Job finding Education and training Job analyse Matching Jobcoaching

11. Intake By the first announcement; the jobcoach takes notice of the basic information (name, address, …) and makes an appointment to a further introduction. Method

12. Method … Assessment introduction of the method of supported employment The jobcoach makes a profile of the interests and the competences of the client

13. Method… Job finding Based on the profile of the client the jobcoach starts to search for a possible job. When the jobcoach finds an interested employer, he makes an analyse of the possible tasks

14. Method… Job matching When there is a positive matching between the profile of the client and the profile of the possible job, the next step can be made : acquaintance between the client and the employer.

15. Method… Probation A very important aspect of supported employment is ‘ the training-on-the-job’.

16. Method… Evaluation At the end of the probation, there is an official evaluation between the different members. The result shows whether the engagement can go on.

17. Method Follow-up To guarantee the success of the job on the long term is it necessary to give as long as need a follow-up support : visits at work, evaluations, …