Level 2 Hairdressing Apprentice

Begin your hairdressing career with Ego Hair

An independent Burton salon committed to developing the next generation. This two-year Level 2 apprenticeship combines real salon experience, structured training and a genuine pathway into our Developing Talent Programme.

Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.

What you'll do at work

As a Hairdressing Apprentice at Ego Hair, you will become part of an independently owned, employed salon team with shared standards and a genuine commitment to long-term development. Your Level 2 apprenticeship will combine real salon experience with the required apprenticeship training. During the early stages, the focus will be on learning the professional foundations properly. As your confidence and ability grow, you will begin developing practical hairdressing skills on training heads, models and, when appropriate, supervised clients.

Day-to-day responsibilities will include:

• Welcoming clients, preparing gowns and refreshments, and helping create a warm, professional salon experience.
• Shampooing, conditioning and carrying out backwash duties as your training progresses.
• Preparing styling stations, tools, equipment and products for services.
• Supporting stylists during appointments and observing consultations, cutting, colouring and finishing work.
• Maintaining excellent standards of cleanliness, hygiene, laundry, stock organisation and general salon presentation.
• Answering telephone calls and supporting bookings and client enquiries when trained to do so.
• Completing Level 2 learning, practical work, portfolio evidence and off-the-job training.
• Practising cutting, styling, colouring and consultation skills using training heads and models.
• Taking part in structured salon development sessions led mainly by Suzanne and supported by Ego's senior team once the essential foundations are established.
• Building the reliability, communication, teamwork and professional standards needed for a successful career behind the chair.

The successful candidate will not be expected to arrive with developed technical skills. We are looking for genuine enthusiasm, reliability, resilience and a willingness to listen, practise and improve. There is one position because we want to give the successful apprentice meaningful time, attention and investment.

Where you'll work

103a-104 High Street
DE14 1LL

Training provider

BURTON AND SOUTH DERBYSHIRE COLLEGE

Training course

Hairdressing professional (level 2)

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 haircut, 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.