Step to work (STA)

Are you in need of personalized support to enter the labor market? Then we at Jobfind can help you. Apply to the Public Employment Service to participate.

What is Step to Work (STA)?

The Swedish Public Employment Service’s mission includes streamlining and speeding up the entry into the labor market for job seekers who have reduced work capacity due to a disability and/or illness. These people are deemed to need in-depth support in the form of individually adapted work preparation measures to be able to approach working life and/or start studying for a profession.

The Step to Work service aims, in a coherent process, to identify the participant’s resources and support needs and to strengthen and develop the participant with the goal of work or education. To achieve this, the elements of the service can be combined based on the individual needs of the participant. Regardless of how the elements are combined, the goal is always work or education.

To achieve this, the components of the service can be combined based on the individual needs of the participant. Regardless of how the components are combined, the goal is always work or training.

The four elements of the service consist of:

1. Mapping needs in the service
2. Identifying resources and support needs
3. Strengthen and develop
4. Find a workplace

The service includes both optional and compulsory activities in the areas below:

• Indicative actions
• Health promotion
• Work-like activities

Activities take place both individually and in groups. All participants start the service in Part 1. They are then assigned to either Part 2 or Part 3 and finally Part 4.

Target group
The service is aimed at jobseekers who, due to disability and/or a history of ill health, need vocational rehabilitation to get into work or education. Examples of participants with presumed or confirmed ill-health or disability who are relevant to the service may be jobseekers who:

• Need to increase their activity level to reach the goal of work or study
• No or little work experience
• Has insufficient knowledge of the Swedish language
• Lack of education
• Have education and work experience but due to illness/disability need a new direction in working life
• Participates in the reinforced cooperation with the Social Insurance Agency
• Have a visual impairment, hearing impairment and/or are deaf
• Previously on sick leave and need vocational rehabilitation before returning to work
• Have mental and/or physical health problems and need to be motivated and empowered to see their resources and how they can be used in a job context
• Has a disability that affects the ability to work and needs insight into the consequences of the disability in a work situation and what possibilities exist to compensate for them

The training is divided into different tracks depending on the educational background and language skills of our participants:

• Track 1a: Jobseekers with only pre-secondary education or no education
• Track 1b: Jobseekers with only pre-secondary or no education in need of enhanced language and/or communication support
• Track 2a: Jobseekers with upper secondary or tertiary education
• Track 2b: Jobseekers with upper secondary or post-secondary education in need of enhanced language and/or communication support

The following work in STA:
Labor consultant, Leg. Occupational therapist and Leg. Study and career counselors

We have launched STA in the following locations:

• Bromma
• Danderyd
• Fagersta
• Gotland
• Hallstahammar
• Kista
• Norrtälje
• Piteå
• Sollentuna
• Solna
• Valdemarsvik