Vocational rehabilitation
The aim of vocational rehabilitation is to support you in entering, returning to or continuing in working life.
Read more about vocational rehabilitation for young persons if you are 16–29 and your functional capacity has declined significantly for some other reason than a medical condition or disability and you do not have a job or a place of study.
Finding your way in life – support for finding a job you can do or starting studies
Kela’s vocational rehabilitation services can help and support you for example if you want to
- find a field of work or study that is compatible with your functional capacity
- return to work.
Kela offers many kinds of vocational rehabilitation services
- Vocational rehabilitation assessment – explore your options to see what kind of work you can do
- Training try-out – see if the field of study you have chosen is the right choice for you
- Education and training – complete a course of study that is compatible with your functional capacity
- Work try-out – try out in practice what kind of work you can do
- Job coaching – support for finding a job or starting your own business
- Kiila rehabilitation – improves your work ability and helps you stay on at work
- Assistive devices – devices to support work or study
- Self-employment grant – support for self-employed persons with a diminished work ability
Check if you can get rehabilitation from Kela or your authorised pension provider
Kela offers vocational rehabilitation especially to young persons and unemployed persons with little work experience.
Your authorised pension provider (tela.fi) may grant you rehabilitation if you are working or if your connection to working life has not been permanently severed.
Call Kela’s customer service number for rehabilitation clients if you are not sure where you can get rehabilitation services.