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Hairdressing Apprentice
About the Role
The apprentices will meet and greet clients, keep the salon clean and tidy, cover reception duties, and carry out tasks such as shampooing, washing off colours, applying conditioning treatments. There will be regular training session days including cut and colour to support your college work.
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
What You'll Do at Work
- Meet and greet clients. Gowning up clients, showing them to their seats and informing their stylist they are ready
- Offering and making refreshments, including making tea and coffee and serving cold drinks when required
- Shampooing and washing off colours, applying conditioning treatments and rinsing off. Towel drying hair and showing the client back to her seat. Letting the stylist know she/he is ready
- Keeping the Salon floor free from hair by sweeping and placing hair cuttings in the bin
- Keeping the Salon clean and tidy throughout the day, including putting products away, magazines tidied, throwing disposable towels away and placing used towels in the basket provided
- To change bin bags and recycle whenever they need to be
- Put dustbins out if necessary
- Removing cups and glasses, washing them up and putting them away
- Answering the phone and booking appointments (training provided). Covering reception duties when unattended
- Observing stylists working (this is an important part of your training)
- Cleaning the Salon, kitchen and toilet facilities, A list of jobs will be provided for this
- You may be asked to carry out duties not normally undertaken by you, to suit the needs of the business
- You will be expected to attend college every Monday
- You may be asked to attend specific training events either in the salon or at another venue
- To be aware of health and safety issues and keep up with hazardous waste updates
- To attend regular one to ones with the salon owner to discuss your progress
Where You'll Work
77 WINDMILL HILL
ENFIELD
EN2 7AF
Training Details
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training Provider
HERTFORD REGIONAL COLLEGE
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Training Course
Hairdressing professional (level 2)
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What You'll Learn
Course Contents
- Adhere to legal and organisational 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 organisation.
- 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 organisation, 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 organisational requirements.
- Complete and maintain client records in accordance with legal and organisational 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 analyse 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 personalised short or medium (above the shoulder) length hair cut, changing the shape, length and style hair using a range of cutting techniques.
- Complete a range of hair colouring and lightening services to change the depth and tone using current colouring 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 colour and lighteners).
- Evaluate the results of the service.
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Training Schedule
Work based learning with attendance one day per week at Hertford Regional College Ware campus to achieve VTCT Level 2 Diploma for hair Professionals. The Assessor will visit apprentice in the work place to carry out observations, professional discussions etc.
Essential Qualifications
- GCSE in:
- English (grade 1-9)
- Maths (grade 1-9)
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Other Requirements
Working weekends, Saturdays.
About the Salon
The salon has built up a great reputation since it opened in June 1990. Customer care is at the heart of all the services we offer, many of our customers have been attending the salon for over twenty years. Most of the current staff have been at the salon for many years and are hugely experienced in all aspects of hairdressing. We offer a full range of services including, cut and finishing, styling, hi-lights, Great Lengths hair extensions, Brazilian blow dries, colour work, including colour correction and specialist bridal packages upon request.
Your earnings can increase over time with an apprenticeship. Find out about potential future pay.
There will be opportunities for progression and a permanent position subject to performance.
Contact Information
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
HERTFORD REGIONAL COLLEGE
The Apprenticeship Team
apprenticeship@hrc.ac.uk
01992411572
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000051715.
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