Wie hängen Job Coach und Supported Employment zusammen?

The term Supported Employment means "supported employment". It is a specific method and various measures to accompany people with disadvantages on the general labor market on their way into paid work and to support them in staying there.

The following approaches form the core elements of Supported Employments:

• Integration: Integration is probably the most central feature of Supported Employment. People with a disability should work side by side with other people. Integration should take place in all areas of everyday working life, for example during breaks, on the way to work, at team events or external activities with colleagues.
• Paid and regular work: The supported employment method is not about unpaid therapeutic employment. Rather, the method takes the approach that people with a disability also have the right to equal pay for equal work.
• "first place, then qualify": Supported Employment bases this rethink on the realization that many people learn better in real-life situations. This means that the implementation of what has been learned often leads to problems and there is no adequate preparation for the real requirements in the workplace. As a result, people remain in the system and do not progress. One example of this is the low transition rate from workshops for people with disabilities to the general labor market.
• diverse, flexible and open-ended support services: The support includes all the help that those affected need for successful integration and work in a company. Depending on the impairment, this may be more or less. This is why the assistance is offered in a very flexible, individual and unlimited time frame.

Job coaching is a methodological element of Supported Employment.

In addition to the job coach or job coaching, Supported Employment also includes other elements and measures, such as

• Individual career planning
• Individual job search
• Support in finding a job
• Analysis of the workplace and the corresponding adjustments
• Internships
• Design of an induction plan and support plan
• Further support, for example as part of psychosocial care