Planning rehabilitation

A carefully drawn up rehabilitation plan is a prerequisite for Varma to assess whether the planned measures can be supported. You are not, however, required to have a ready rehabilitation plan when you apply for vocational rehabilitation.

The goal of the rehabilitation plan is to find work tasks that suit your work ability and to figure out suitable rehabilitation means. The goal is to create a personal rehabilitation plan that promotes the recovery and maintenance of your work ability.

The rehabilitation plan is made while your preliminary decision is valid, i.e. within roughly 10 months.

Tips for finding alternatives

• Discuss and brainstorm together with your friends, acquaintances, supervisor or health care provider.
  
• Look at job descriptions in job listings or the course descriptions of educational institutions.
• Contact employers and educational institutions and ask about different careers and job descriptions.
• To inspire you, take free career aptitude tests that you can fill in independently online.
• Use the occupational health care provider’s work ability coach’s services if the service is part of the agreement offered by your employer.

We can support you in drawing up your rehabilitation plan by offering you the guidance services of our rehabilitation partners. Our rehabilitation partners are companies that provide vocational career and rehabilitation guidance, employing coaches that are specialised in providing vocational guidance. A personal coach will be appointed to assist you in considering jobs that are suited to your state of health. Support from Varma’s rehabilitation partners consists of individual guidance, and it is initiated on Varma’s mandate.

Once the plan is ready, fill in the rehabilitation plan information in our online service. To fill in the rehabilitation plan, go to Vocational rehabilitation in the online service.

The following information is submitted in the rehabilitation plan

• the rehabilitation option (work trial, job coaching, education, or support for the self-employed)
• the rehabilitation organiser (an employer or educational institution)
• the duration of the vocational rehabilitation (start and end date)
• the contact person’s details (e.g. a supervisor during a work trial)
• an explanation of how the plan supports continuing in or returning to working life.

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