Salon Apprentice

Wage

£15,392 a year

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Salary review at the end of apprenticeship or after 1st year.

Training Course

Hairdressing Professional (Level 2)

Hours

• College: Monday
• Salon: Tuesday - Saturday
• One late evening and a day off during the week to be agreed
• 37 hours a week

Start Date

Thursday 10 September 2026

Duration

2 years

Positions Available

2

What You'll Do at Work

• Meet and greet clients
• Serve refreshments
• Shampoo, scalp massage, and condition
• General housekeeping and laundry

Where You'll Work

2 CHESTER ROAD
MACCLESFIELD
SK11 8DG

Training Provider

CHESHIRE COLLEGE SOUTH AND WEST

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, and 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.