Apprentice Hair Stylist

Summary

Join our dynamic salon team and kickstart your career in hairdressing! As an apprentice, you'll gain hands-on experience in cutting, styling, and colouring while learning from expert stylists. Develop your creativity in a fast-paced, supportive environment with opportunities for growth and professional development!

Annual wage: Competitive
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Training course: Advanced and creative hair professional (level 3)
Hours: Monday college day Four other days to be confirmed upon requirement but will include a Saturday, will include some evenings. Shifts TBC.
40 hours a week
Possible start date: Monday 6 January
Duration: 2 years
Positions available: 1

Work

As an apprentice, you’ll work at a company and get hands-on experience. You’ll gain new skills and work alongside experienced staff.

What you’ll do at work

Observe senior stylists with hair cutting, colouring, and styling services for clients.
Provide excellent customer service, ensuring a welcoming and professional salon experience.
Learn and develop skills in the latest hair trends, techniques, and products.
Maintain a clean and organised salon, including preparing stations and tools and maintaining a clean working environment this will including general cleaning duties.
Attend in-salon training and to enhance your skills and progress in your apprenticeship.
Shampoo, condition, and treat hair, preparing clients for styling sessions.
Support the salon team with reception duties, greeting clients including booking appointments and handling customer queries.

Where you’ll work

53 THE QUADRANT

ST ALBANS

AL4 9RD

Training

An apprenticeship includes regular training with a college or other training organisation. At least 20% of your working hours will be spent training or studying.

College or training organisation

OAKLANDS COLLEGE

Your training course

Advanced and creative hair professional (level 3)

Equal to A level

Course contents

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 hair looks. Use and adapt a range of technical skills to create a collection of hairstyle looks using: 1. sectioning and cutting guidelines to achieve the required look. 2. precision and personalised cutting techniques tailored to suit individual characteristics . 3. creative finishing and dressing techniques. 4. 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: 1. Using creative sectioning techniques to personalise the colour result and enhance the finished look. 2. 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.

Your training plan

Monday training at Oaklands college, Welwyn Garden City
Weekly in salon training to be scheduled upon recruitment

More training information

L2 Hairdressing professional Apprenticeship Standard

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE in:

English (grade (Grade 9-2))
Maths (grade (Grade 9-2))

Let the company know about other relevant qualifications and industry experience you have. They can adjust the apprenticeship to reflect what you already know.

Skills

Communication skills
Attention to detail
Organisation skills
Customer care skills
Problem solving skills
Administrative skills
Team working
Creative
Initiative
Non judgemental
Patience

About this company

Small independent salon

After this apprenticeship

Junior stylist
Level 3 Hairdressing
Babering qualifictaion

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