Objective of the coaching stage The coaching and aftercare stage provides a suitable workplace and focuses on the development of an enduring working relationship between the employer and the employee. The job coach will tailor the coaching method (content and approach) to the client’s needs and work environment.
	Client profile / need for support The aim is to give the client maximum control and independence where possible. The job coach provides tailor made support. Monitoring the client’s ability to cope is an important aspect of this process. The job coach will ‘keep his/her finger on the pulse’ with respect to the client and members of the personal/professional network, and will adjust the intensity of support as necessary.

	The objective of the coaching and aftercare stage for the client is to retain his/her workplace and/or further development, and to maintain work skills focused on career support. Motivation, desires and actual prospects The client will have acquired a level of work intensity in accordance with his/her abilities and opportunities in society. He/she will be aware of the need to tailor his/her selected profession and/or training to his/her level. The client has a suitable workplace in line with his/her motivation and desire to work. Skills The client is aware of the available options to develop or maintain skills (social and technical) and work attitude. He/she retains or develops skills related to suitable activities or professions. The client has developed an insight into his/her own abilities and uses problem solving strategies. He/she is capable of receiving feedback and can express his/her own problems as and when they occur. Learning method The client oversees his/her development options and the way in which he/she would like to be supported. He/she feels that the support and options on offer are geared to his/her choice of a suitable job or profession. He/she learns from experience, which offers him/her opportunities for further development. People with autism do not learn by experience naturally as they perceive events as isolated facts. Situations are not interlinked and conclusions in the present, and interpretations in future situations, are missing. Environment and personality The client recognises that the work environment fits in with his/her personality. He/she is capable of perceiving respect, cooperation and honesty in relationships with colleagues. The objective of the coaching and aftercare stage for the personal network is acceptance and support for the client’s choices. Members of the personal network need to monitor the client’s ability to cope, and report their findings to the job coach. Motivation, desires and actual prospects The personal network is aware of the client’s future prospects. It has a realistic view of the client’s (im)possibilities. It supports the course taken by the job coach and thus contributes to the acceptance of the client’s realistic prospects. Skills The personal network generates the conditions that enable the client to demonstrate his/her skills in the workplace. This also includes providing an outline for the client and creating a balance between leisure time and work. Members of the network have to highlight instances of excessive, or insufficient, load and cooperate constructively with the job coach. Where necessary the network will be given support and instructions on how to proceed by the job coach. Learning method The personal network provides support and practical guidance to the client, e.g. with homework and when organising/planning activities. The job coach will give the network instructions on the best way to proceed. Environment and personality The personal network can respect the workplace, from the point of view of coherence between the client’s environment and personality. The objective of the coaching and aftercare stage for the professional network is to maintain an enduring working relationship with the ‘employee’. The professional network includes employers, colleagues, people with a work conditional relationship to the client such as social workers, UWV employment experts, reintegration companies, employers and the job coach organisation. Motivation, desires and actual prospects The employer has developed an insight into the contribution the client can make to the company. He/she has a realistic view of the client’s abilities and inabilities. Skills Together with the client and his/her job coach, the professional network sets clear targets for the client’s further development and career prospects. The network provides the conditions for a suitable work environment and (with assistance from the job coach) offers adequate support at the workplace. Learning method The professional network offers the client development opportunities based on support and training at work. Internal and external training options are provided, for instance based on time or financial compensation. Environment and personality Where possible the professional network will adjust the workplace environment to the client’s personality.