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SIUS Supported Employment på svenska. Henrik Jacobsson Arbetsförmedlingen, Kristianstad henrik.jacobsson@arbetsformedlingen.se Henrik Jacobsson Arbetsförmedlingen, Kristianstad. Starting Points for Supported Employment. All people has Equal value. A need to feel needed or wanted.
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SIUS Supported Employment på svenska Henrik JacobssonArbetsförmedlingen, Kristianstadhenrik.jacobsson@arbetsformedlingen.se Henrik Jacobsson Arbetsförmedlingen, Kristianstad
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 SIUSHässleholm 4 SIUSÖstra Göinge 1 SIUSFinsam 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 job-seekers 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 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, 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 job-seekers 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 • The employer, communities, companies, clubs • - Highly motivated “specialists” (example!)- Cost effectiveness- Internal & external Goodwill • The Society- Better use of common resources- Lesser health problems / expenses • 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?