Level 3 Beauty Apprentice

Role Overview

The role involves designing and delivering bespoke advanced treatments, such as advanced massage and electrical face/body therapies, to meet client needs. They ensure legal compliance, manage salon systems, and contribute to the business’s financial effectiveness.

Responsibilities

The apprentice will work as part of the salon team and support the day-to-day running of the business. Typical duties will include:

• Greeting clients and providing a warm and professional welcome
• Answering the telephone and responding to client enquiries
• Booking and managing client appointments
• Preparing treatment areas before clients arrive
• Cleaning and maintaining treatment rooms and salon areas to a high standard
• Carrying out client consultations and identifying individual treatment needs
• Providing beauty treatments in line with their current skills, training, and level of competence
• Developing advanced beauty therapy skills, including electrical face and body treatments
• Supporting clients throughout their treatment and maintaining professional client care
• Providing suitable aftercare and treatment recommendations
• Advising clients on appropriate products and supporting retail sales
• Maintaining accurate client records and consultation information
• Following salon health, safety, hygiene, and infection prevention procedures
• Cleaning and maintaining equipment in line with manufacturer and salon procedures
• Managing stock, checking product levels, and supporting with stock rotation
• Promoting salon treatments, products, and special offers
• Working alongside experienced therapists and taking part in ongoing training and development
• Supporting the wider salon team and contributing to a professional and welcoming salon environment

Training and Learning

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

This apprenticeship is available in these locations:

• 10, Castle Street, C/O Koha Clinic, Berkhamsted, HP4 2BQ
• 24 High Street, Leighton Buzzard, LU7 1EA

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

Training Provider
DEBUT TRAINING ACADEMY LIMITED

Training Course
Advanced beauty therapist (level 3)

Course Contents

• Perform advanced consultations for advanced manual and technical therapies to design bespoke treatment plans to include:
  • Factors that affect the treatment
  • In-depth client lifestyle profiling
  • Body and skin analysis including type, condition, and characteristics
  • Postural analysis and the identification of any postural faults, characteristics, body shapes, lifestyle, and health guidance
  • Solutions for improving the condition of the clients’ physical appearance and emotional welfare
  • Specific client risk assessment to establish suitability and indicators for treatment
  • The recognition of any contraindications and take the necessary action
  • Advice on expected and adverse contra-actions during or after the treatment
  • Taking appropriate remedial action if the client experiences discomfort or contraindications
• Communication skills, to build and maintain clients' trust, by providing and collating accurate and relevant information, explaining the treatment procedure at each stage in the process
• Establish suitability for treatment by completing appropriate tests including: allergy, sensitivity
• Works in compliance against organizational operations to meet legal, local rules, industry requirements, treatment protocols, manufacturers' instructions, and guidance
• Ensure the client's records are completed, signed, maintained, and stored accurately (manual or electronic methods) in accordance with legal and organizational operations
• Maintain safe and effective methods of working in accordance with organizational operations to meet legal, local rules, industry requirements, treatment protocols, manufacturers' instructions, and guidance by:
  • Maintaining personal hygiene, protection, and presentation
  • Maintaining client confidentiality and discretion before, during, and after the treatments
  • Positioning the client to meet the needs of the service
  • Ensuring own posture and working methods minimize fatigue and the risk of injury to yourself and client
  • Ensuring environmental conditions are suitable for the client and the treatment
  • Keeping work area clean and tidy (products, tools, and equipment)
  • Using working methods that minimize the risk of cross-infection
  • Promoting environmental and sustainable working practices
  • Disposal of waste materials to meet legal requirements
• Prepare the client for treatment, whilst maintaining client's discretion, modesty, and privacy. Maintain client comfort and care by checking the client's wellbeing before, during, and after the treatment and allowing sufficient post-treatment recovery time.
• Perform, implement, and complete risk assessment protocols in relation to the environment, treatment, and client risk. Liaise with non-healthcare and healthcare practitioners when required.
• Implement, perform, and adapt advanced manual therapies, inclusive of Swedish massage (face, scalp, and body), singularly or as a course to meet client’s physical and psychological characteristics, treatment objectives (relaxing, wellbeing, uplifting, detoxifying, and stimulating) needs, and expectations. To include: effleurage, petrissage, tapotment, vibration, and friction; deep tissue, light touch, lymphatic drainage, and pressure point massage; advanced techniques using the forearm, wrist, and elbow; choice of massage mediums
• Implement, perform, and adapt advanced facial technical (electrical or mechanical) therapy treatments, singularly or as a course to improve and maintain facial contour and muscle condition and increase lymphatic drainage, to improve face, neck, and shoulder skin condition, to meet the client’s needs and expectations. To include the following advanced facial technical electrical or mechanical techniques/current types: galvanic; micro-current; microdermabrasion; low intensity LED light (below 500mW); skin warming devices; high/radio frequency (range 3khz- 300GHz (including high frequency 3khz -30mhz); lymphatic drainage equipment
• Implement, perform, and adapt advanced body technical (electrical or mechanical) therapy treatments, singularly or as a course to improve body skin condition, improve body contour and muscle condition, and increase lymphatic drainage to meet the client’s needs and expectations. To include the following advanced body technical electrical or mechanical techniques/current types: galvanic; micro-current; microdermabrasion; low intensity LED light (below 500mW); skin warming devices; high/radio frequency (range 3khz- 300GHz (including high frequency 3khz -30mhz); electrical muscle stimulation, lymphatic drainage equipment
• Select and prepare the relevant products, tools, and equipment to suit the treatment objectives and plan
• Use and adapt the products, equipment, tools, and treatment duration to suit the client's skin type and characteristics, body type, body condition, sensitivity, and tolerance
• Advise on the environmental and lifestyle factors that impact the human body, systems, and their effects on the ageing process
• Resolve problems that may occur during treatments, and refer when required
• Adapt advanced manual therapies treatments to suit different treatment objectives and treatment areas
• Ensure the finished result is to the client's satisfaction and meets the agreed treatment objectives
• Identify, resolve, and report organizational operational problems within the scope of responsibility
• Provide detailed, written, post treatment advice and recommendations to include: post treatment and follow-up procedures, aftercare products, avoidance of activities that may cause contraindications or that reduce treatment benefits, time intervals between treatments, present and future products, homecare routines/treatments
• Evaluate the treatment outcome in order to inform further treatment recommendations
• Promote and sell products suitable for advanced manual and technical therapy services and treatments to include: link selling and long-term treatment planning to include; lifestyle and health guidance
• Promote sales and additional treatments to enhance the client experience and overall treatment results
• Adjust performance to meet targets consistently and within the agreed timescale by reviewing and recording progress
• Develop and maintain salon procedures to safely control work operations, the management of salon business systems, and processes including, successful business planning, financial effectiveness, promotional and marketing activities, team development, salon operations, and supporting client service improvements, problem solving practice. Apply time and self-management principles
• Supervise, coordinate, and organize individual and team activities, whilst maintaining good working relationships with individuals and team members
• Manage own continuing professional development (CPD) incorporating research, professional practice, and progression