Support and assistance in gainful employment after a COVID illness

Staff at the Bellikon Rehabilitation Clinic's Competence Centre for Occupational Integration will carefully and competently advise and accompany you after a COVID illness in order to find your way back into your previous occupation or to take up a new occupation. In the case of severe or long-lasting symptoms, preparation is possible within the framework of integration measures.

Special coaching for people with Long-COVID

They are accompanied by an experienced job coach who specialises in Long-COVID to help them re-enter their professional activity or training, or to build up their performance in the primary labour market.

The following are important

  • Sensitising the (working) environment to dealing with Long-COVID and the individual challenges associated with it.
  • Installing an effective and specialised network of therapists and helpers on site.
  • Temporarily adjusting work content, workload or work density.
  • Planning and monitoring a gradual return to work, taking into account personal resources - especially after a longer period of incapacity for work.
  • Establishing an adapted break management system.
  • Focusing on small, individualised and sustainable steps in the development of work and performance and in coping with practical life tasks.
  • Building enhanced self-competencies and personal coping strategies.
  • Finding a place to work if the original job had to be given up.
  • Supporting job search after job loss.
  • Ensuring the sustainability of integration into the labour market.

Possible preparation (integration measures)

The integration measures make it possible to build up performance instead of entering the primary labour market directly under special occupational therapy conditions.

The following are important

  • The establishment of a regular daily structure.
  • The cautious increase of the presence and the complexity of the work content according to the individual possibilities.
  • Preventing excessive demands (crashes) during the build-up.
  • Planning subsequent support and coordinating the professionals involved.

Both types of support are commissioned and supported by the disability insurance.

You can also find this information in our downloadable and printable factsheet (German only).