Fønix
Country: Norway
Name of EPR Director: Lene Odberg Borvik
Name of EPR Centre Coordinator: Andrea Speilberg Lindstrøm
Fønix is the largest company within the vocational rehabilitation market in Norway. Their main office is in Sandefjord, Norway, (120 km south of Oslo) supporting 8 regional offices. The company has close to 200 employees – mostly certified trainers and instructors / teachers.
Fønix base their service provision on each persons’ individual need for assistance, regarding their work capacity. We coach everyone towards ordinary employment through qualification and job training.
“Individual Placement and Support” and “Supported Employment” is benchmark methodology, applied for the group of jobseekers in need of an extensive follow up in the open labor market.
The services provided for the vocationally disabled are:
• Assessment of the potential work and educational capacity of the individual and qualification of the individual through career guidance, adapted job training and/or qualification (job skills or further education).
• To provide permanent adapted work for the individuals that has no possibility of a job in the open labor market.
Fønix also provide “Work Preparatory Training” for people who need to establish necessary basic job skills, lifelong career guidance, language training and work-related integration for migrants.
Fønix also has extensive experience with internal company training on many different levels – both in public- and private sector. The experience is especially from the use of career guidance connected to high levels of sick leave.