Nuotti coaching – support for planning your future

Do you need support and motivation for finding potential study and job options? During Nuotti coaching, you will work together with a personal coach to achieve your goals. Nuotti coaching is intended for young persons aged 16–29.

Nuotti coaching is one of the many vocational rehabilitation services Kela can offer to young persons. If your functional capacity has declined due to a medical condition, vocational rehabilitation services may be the right option for you.

What is Nuotti coaching?

When you participate in Nuotti coaching, you get personal guidance and support for planning your future. You work together with your coach to figure out what you would like to study and what industry you might want to work in.

Your coach can help you

• identify your strengths and resources
• improve your ability to study and engage in working life
• make a preliminary plan for starting your studies or finding work.

Nuotti coaching is free of charge for you.

Who is Nuotti coaching for?

Nuotti coaching may be a good option for you if

• you do not have any plans for the future
• you have stopped your studies or your military or non-military service
• you are about to be released from prison and your plans for a job are still unclear
• you are unable or you do not have the motivation to plan your life on your own.

To participate in Nuotti coaching, you must be committed to meeting with your coach and participating actively in the coaching.

What is Nuotti coaching like?

The coaching period includes

• 20 meetings with your coach (up to 10 meetings can be held remotely)
• contact with your coach between meetings
• meetings with other experts who can help you.

Meetings with your coach are not tied to a specific location. For example, you can meet them at your home or at a library or a coffee shop.  Nuotti coaching can last for up to 5 months. Your coaching can continue for a maximum of 10 months if you also participate in vocational rehabilitation assessment at the same time.

If you need to extend your Nuotti coaching, fill in and submit an application for an extension together with your coach. You can get a maximum of 2 periods of Nuotti coaching.

How to apply

1. Fill in the form Vocational rehabilitation for young persons (KU 143e, PDF).

   • Save the blank form to your device. Do not fill in the form directly in the browser because some of the information may not be saved that way.
   • Open the form with Adobe Reader and fill it in.
   • Tell us in the application which service provider’s rehabilitation you want to participate in. Use Kela’s service provider search to look up rehabilitation service providers (available in Finnish and Swedish).
   • Save the completed application form on your device. Note that the application must be in PDF format.
2. Send the application in the OmaKela e-service (available in Finnish and Swedish).

   • Log in to OmaKela and select Tee hakemus (Submit an application).
   • First select Sairastaminen ja kuntoutus (Sickness and rehabilitation). Then select Kuntoutus – tee hakemus (Rehabilitation – Submit an application). Finally, select Ammatillinen kuntoutus (Vocational rehabilitation).
   • If you send your application in OmaKela, you do not need to sign it.
3. Visit OmaKela to see if Kela has made a decision on your application. We will also send the decision notice to the rehabilitation service provider. This tells the service provider that Kela will pay for your rehabilitation, and the service provider will reserve a place for you on the rehabilitation course.

If you cannot use OmaKela, mail your application to Kela. Save the form to your device and fill it in after saving it. Print out the completed form and send it and any supporting documents to Kela, PL 10, 00056 KELA.

Let us know if you cannot attend Nuotti coaching

Remember to tell Kela immediately if you cannot participate in Nuotti coaching. Let us know that you have to cancel by sending a message to us in the OmaKela e-service or by calling our customer service number for rehabilitation clients.

We recommend that you also contact your coach to let them know you have to cancel.