Hairdressing Apprentice at The Cutting Room

Start your hairdressing career in a busy, modern salon where you'll learn from an experienced team and gain real hands-on experience from day one. At The Cutting Room, we’re looking for a motivated apprentice who is passionate about hair, people and developing the skills to become a confident professional stylist.

What you'll do at work

As a Hairdressing Apprentice at The Cutting Room, you’ll become an important part of our salon team while developing the practical skills, knowledge and confidence needed to become a professional hairdresser.

Your week will combine hands-on salon experience with your apprenticeship training. You’ll work alongside experienced stylists, learning how a busy professional salon operates and gradually taking on more responsibility as your skills develop.

Your role will include:

• Welcoming and looking after clients
• Shampooing and preparing hair for services
• Assisting stylists with colour and treatments
• Maintaining a clean and organised working environment
• Preparing stations and equipment
• Helping with the day-to-day running of the salon

As your training progresses, you’ll develop practical skills in blow-drying, styling, cutting, colouring, consultations and product knowledge. You’ll have opportunities to practise your skills, work with models and, when ready, begin providing selected services to salon clients under the guidance of our experienced team.

We want our apprentice to do much more than simply observe. You'll be encouraged to ask questions, practise regularly, get involved and build the confidence and technical ability needed to progress towards becoming a stylist at The Cutting Room.

Where you'll work

4 Bridge Street
St. Ives
PE27 5EG

Training

Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.

• Training provider: CAMBRIDGE REGIONAL COLLEGE
• 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.