Hairdressing apprenticeship

Salon Apprentice required to join our team, we offer you a great opportunity to learn while at work with in salon practical and knowledge training. We expect a high level of service, appearance, time keeping and customer service.

Responsibilities

• Help with day to day running of the salon
• Face to face client contact
• Shampooing
• Answering the phone

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

Requirements

• Research fashion trends using the results to plan, design, create, produce and present a fashion forward hairstyle collection, identifying the purpose and message of the given collection.
• Analyse factors influencing the design and creation of the collection of hairstyle looks including the target audience.
• Carry out in-depth consultation and complex analysis of the client hair to plan, create and style the collection of hairstyle looks.
• Maintain effective and safe methods of working and effective communication whilst creating the collection of hairstyle looks.
• Use and adapt a range of technical skills to create a collection of hairstyle looks using:
  • sectioning and cutting guidelines to achieve the required look.
  • precision and personalised cutting techniques tailored to suit individual characteristics .
  • creative finishing and dressing techniques.
  • advanced creative colouring
• Use a range of products, tools and equipment in accordance with legal requirements, manufacturers' instructions and salon policy.
• Present and promote the collection internally using a visual medium.
• Evaluate the results of the collection against the research results to improve further practice.
• Maintain effective and safe methods of working and effective communication whilst completing smoothing and strengthening services.
• Carry out in-depth complex analysis of the client hair and scalp to plan and agree the smoothing and strengthening services.
• Use and apply products, tools and equipment, to smooth and strengthen clients’ hair to the degree of straightness required.
• Resolve problems that may occur during and after the hair smoothing and strengthening process.
• Use a range of products, tools and equipment in accordance with legal requirements, manufacturers' instructions and salon policy.
• Evaluate the results of the service and provide advice on future services and products.
• Maintain effective and safe methods of working and effective communication whilst completing Creative colour conversion services.
• Carry out tests and an in-depth complex consultation of the client hair and scalp to plan and agree the creative colour conversion service.
• Analyse factors influencing the selection of the colour conversion technique used.
• Provide an creative colour conversion service to change the depth and tone of the hair in accordance with legal requirements and manufacturer’s instructions.
• Creative Colour conversion services to include:
  • Using creative sectioning techniques to personalise the colour result and enhance the finished look.
  • toning through bespoke creative formulation, colour blending/shading.
• Resolve problems that may occur during creative colour conversion service
• Removing artificial colour.
• Removing bands of colour.
• Recolouring hair treated with lightener.
• Using pre-pigmentation and colour.
• Recolouring hair that has had artificial colour removed.
• Correcting highlights and lowlights.
• Uses and applies the products, tools and equipment, in accordance with legal requirements, manufacturers' instructions and salon policy.
• Semi- permanent, quasi (mildly oxidising), permanent colour, pre-lighteners, colour removers for artificial colour.
• Complete and evaluate the results of the service and provide advice on future services, aftercare and products.