Independent Living Services Instructor

About the Support You Will Provide

As an ILS Instructor, you will assist each person on a one-to-one basis, and your job duties will be different for each person.

What you might support one person to do, another person may already be able to do independently. You might support one person with grocery shopping for healthy foods, cooking meals, house cleaning, or doing laundry.

For others, you may be helping with exercising, budgeting, making medical appointments, finding social activities or organizing their medications. Each person has their own strengths, preferences and support needs and these will change over time. One of the rewards of working as an ILS Instructor is to witness the accomplishments that people make in their lives and recognize your role in their successes.

Each person has their own strengths, preferences and support needs and these will change over time. One of the rewards of working as an Independent Living Services Instructor is to witness the accomplishments that people make in their lives and recognize your role in their successes.

ACKNOWLEDGING ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND SETTING FUTURE GOALS...

George supports Erika with such things as making doctor’s appointments and making sure that her prescriptions are refilled.

One day George picks Erika up from her job and asks about how her day was and what she did. She smiles and asks him “guess what I did yesterday?” She tells George that she refilled her prescriptions last night on her own. She is very excited that she did this and George recognizes this accomplishment.

She describes to George her fears and what she was thinking when she was making the call and how great she felt when she completed the call and had refilled the prescriptions.

Later in the day, Erika tells George that she needs to make a routine doctor’s appointment.

George asks her if she would like to call and make the appointment herself. She says that she is not ready to do that. George asks her for permission to use her calendar to make the appointment, with her at his side, to make sure that they both agree on the appointment date and time.

Not only is George including her in making the appointment but he is also modeling for her how to do it so that she may become more comfortable with doing this task next time.

Being an ILS Instructor comes with many responsibilities but also has many rewards, including:

Feeling like you make a difference
Getting to know unique people
Touching the lives of people who really appreciate you
Participating in new experiences

Many people find that being an Independent Living Services Instructor to people with disabilities is a fulfilling and enjoyable career.

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