Transcript SIUS: Supported Employment på svenska

SIUS
Supported Employment
på svenska
Henrik Jacobsson
Arbetsförmedlingen, Kristianstad
[email protected]
Starting Points for
Supported Employment
All people has
 Equal value.
 A need to feel needed or
wanted.
 An ability to contribute,
regardless, disability,
ethnicity, gender, social
background etc.
 Sometimes, however little
or much help is needed
along the way ...
SIUS – An established program
at the Swedish labour market
 SIUS – The Swedish labor
markets Special introduction
and follow-up support for
people with disabilities, since
1993
 Approximately: 625
Employment support
consultants
 Kristianstad 5 SIUS
Hässleholm 4 SIUS
Östra Göinge 1 SIUS
Finsam 2 SIUS
 8-10 disabled persons are
receiving an employment
every year at the open labor
market (625*10=6250) through
each consultant
SIUS – a way to find and retain
"suitable" jobs
 Our goal is NOT activities.
The goal is enduring
employments
 Person-centered self-help
approach to help disabled jobseekers to receive and retain
an employment
 Focus on skills and personal
opportunities - not problems.
Three kind of people
 Identity: Disabled
 The Denier
 The Positive Realist
To be a job-seeker through SIUS
 Registered at Arbetsförmedlingen as job-seeker, and be Positive
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to recive an employment
Willing to accept the basic rules on the labour market
- Attendence according to agreement
- Able to get to and from work
- No active addiction
- Accept that the work is not “fun” every day
- Understand and accept the relation between colleagues,
manager and customers
Completed all comprehensive investigation and treatment.
To know about there disability, but are able to see beyond there
mental, intellectual or social disabilities
Be in need of a personal support in the workplace in order to
obtain a position on the open labor market (not sheltered
workshop or similar)
Accept that Arbetsförmedlingen register the disabilities and
informs the employer of this in the matching process.
Supported Employment Method
 Building Relationship of Trust with the job-seeker,
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listen alot, use apropriate humor and show true
empathy.
Go through all the skills, preferences and training
and apply it to the necessary adaptation needs
Find or create custom jobs that can lead to a
permanent employment (if possible use the jobseekers network)
Build a relationship with the workplace, thereafter;
Introduction through information, adaption and
development
Support the job seekers, employers and fellow
workers to make employment possible and durable.
Agreement on follow-up after the employment
Who are the winners…
 The job-seeker:
We help them to find a job, with or without
a wage subsidy which leads to:
- Economic stability.
- Meaningfulness
- Social acceptance
- Positive self-esteem
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The employer, communities, companies, clubs
- Highly motivated “specialists” (example!)
- Cost effectiveness
- Internal & external Goodwill
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The Society
- Better use of common resources
- Lesser health problems / expenses
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Who is the society….???
Basic Concepts for the society
All people has
 Equal value.
 A need to feel needed or
wanted.
 An ability to contribute,
regardless, disability,
ethnicity, gender, social
background etc.
 If we cant support them
who has a need, who
should we support?