About the Role

A chance for a hard-working, confident individual to work in a high-end, main street salon with over 20 years of experience and the opportunity to train at a well-established training provider with over 35 years of experience. You will undertake a 24-month Hair Professional standard course at level 2, working a minimum of 16 hours a week.

What you'll do at work

• Meeting and greeting clients in a confident, friendly, and helpful manner
• Shampooing and conditioning clients' hair, applying toners and treatments, drying and setting hair, and making sure stylists have their correct equipment
• Maintaining the salon, making sure it's clean, sanitized, and to a professional standard
• Involved in assisting at reception and developing customer service skills

Training provider

EXCEED TRAINING COMPANY LIMITED

Training course

Hairdressing Professional (Level 2)

What you'll learn

Course contents

• Adhere to legal and organizational requirements for the safe use of products, tools, materials, and equipment.
• Apply safe, hygienic, and effective methods of working and infection control, while completing hairdressing services.
• Use communication and etiquette that meets industry requirements, suits, and is appropriate to the organization.
• Maintain the client's confidentiality and comfort (modesty, privacy) at the start and during the service.
• Advise clients (new and regular) pre, during, and after service on the maintenance of the look, complementary services, and retail products available in the salon.
• Promote yourself, your organization, products, and services via a variety of social channels.
• Carry out wider salon duties to support the salon business (e.g., services, bookings, payments, retail, upselling, and sales).
• Use a range of products, tools, equipment used in Hairdressing services in accordance with legal organizational requirements.
• Complete and maintain client records in accordance with legal and organizational requirements.
• Work as part of a team to support the salon businesses.
• Use working methods that promote environmental and sustainable working practices.
• Carry out a consultation, examine, and analyze the hair, skin, and scalp and complete relevant industry tests (e.g., hair classification type and characteristics tests).
• Identify (question/observation) any contraindications or limiting factors that are likely to affect or influence the service.
• Shampoo, condition, and treat the hair and scalp.
• Dry and finish hair using a range of techniques to create a range of looks, that meets the intended shape, direction, balance, and volume agreed with the client.
• Use current setting and dressing techniques to create a range of looks that meets the intended shape, direction, balance, and volume agreed with the client.
• Cut hair using a range of technical skills and cutting techniques to create a range of looks, considering weight distribution, cutting angles, balance, and degree of graduation, and the natural growth patterns of the hair, length of the hair (club cutting, scissor over comb, clipper over comb, texturising, freehand, thinning, layering, and razor cutting).
• Restyle hair to create a personalized short or medium (above the shoulder) length haircut, changing the shape, length, and style hair using a range of cutting techniques.
• Complete a range of hair coloring and lightening services to change the depth and tone using current coloring techniques (e.g., freehand techniques, woven highlights or lowlights, root re-touch, half head and full head application, temporary, semi-permanent, demi-permanent, quasi-permanent, permanent color, and lighteners).
• Evaluate the results of the service.