Advanced Apprenticeship in Hairdressing
Start Date: 4th September 2023
- Length 15 Months
- Study Full Time
- Location West Lancashire College
More about the course
Advanced and Creative Hair Professionals are creative, passionate and driven professionals who work without supervision, managing themselves and others when required. They provide a quality service, whilst working to the highest standards and continuously developing their personal and professional skills.
An Advanced and Creative Hair Professional works in the hair industry, which is one of the largest, most trusted and fashion forward professions. They take ownership of their work and client lists, accept responsibility, are proactive, flexible and adaptable, plan their work and time, they aim for excellence by taking exceptional pride in their work and industry.
Entry requirements
- Employment within the sector with a contract of employment for at least 30 hours per week
- 4 GCSEs at Grade 3-9, including English and/or Maths
- Hair Professional Level 2 Standard
- Satisfactory completion of the college initial assessment
What will I achieve?
After successfully completing this course, you will gain a Advanced and Creative Hair Professional Level 3.
What will I learn?
Skills/knowledge relating to:
- Health and safety
- Consultation
- Creative styling/ dressing hair
- Creative colour conversion
- Precision cutting techniques.
- Colour correction techniques
- Smoothing and strengthening systems
Behaviours
- Safe working practices and procedures
- Problem solving
- Creativity using individual flair and imagination
- Be flexible and adaptable.
- Promote and improve own professional development
How am I assessed?
- Professional discussion
- Online exam
- Observation and questioning
Where can I progress?
After successfully completed the Level 3 Advanced and Creative Hair Professional, students can progress to Level 4 Salon Management
Course costs
This is funded by employer, please contact the team for further details
Contact our Apprenticeship team
01695 52490
wlcapprenticeships@westlancs.ac.uk
What can I do with a qualification in Construction?
Daily tasks:
- Ensures financial accounts for the business are maintained.
- Demonstrates, advises on and sells hair and/or beauty products.
- Checks and maintains any equipment, and ensures that all safety requirements are met.
- Undertakes and/or directs hair treatments and/or beauty therapy.
- Ensures clients.
- Provides clients with information and advice on styles and treatments, and resolves any complaints or problems.
- Controls the allocation, training and remuneration of staff.
- Determines staffing, financial, material and other short- and long-term needs.
Daily tasks:
- Demonstrates, sells and recommends hair care products to clients and advises them on hair care.
- Ensures hair products are stored and used appropriately and observes relevant health and safety factors.
- Maintains client records and keeps up-to-date with new products, styles and techniques.
- Collects payment, arranges appointments and cleans and tidies salon.
- Shaves and trims beards and moustaches.
- Combs, brushes, blow-dries or sets wet hair in rollers to style or straighten.
- Cuts and trims hair using scissors, clippers, razor and comb.
- Washes, conditions, bleaches, tints or dyes hair and provides any necessary basic scalp treatments.
- Discusses customer requirements, analyses hair condition and other relevant features to define and advise on hair style.
Daily tasks:
- Maintains client records, sells and advises on cosmetic products and services, and ensures appropriate health and safety issues are addressed.
- Advises clients on diet and exercise to assist in weight loss and slimming.
- Recognises problems and refers clients to medical practitioners if appropriate.
- Performs specialist treatments for conditions such as acne, applies skin rejuvenation therapies.
- Applies make-up to hide blemishes or enhance facial features and advises clients on skin care and make-up techniques.
- Cleans, shapes and polishes finger and toe nails, applies nail extensions.
- Uses waxing, threading, sugaring and other epilation techniques to remove any unwanted body hair.
- Massages scalp, face and other parts of the body and carries out spray tanning.
- Discusses clients requirements, analyses and advises client on appropriate skin care, and applies treatments to the face or body.
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