Weekend Hairdressing Diploma - Level 2

Weekend Hairdressing Diploma - Level 2

3 Weekends per month over 1 Year

Seven Mandatory Units to be completed.

• Ensure your own actions reduce risks to Health & Safety
• Give clients a positive impression of yourself and your organisation
• Advice and consult with clients
• Cut hair
• Shampoo and condition hair and scalp
• Style, dress and finish hair using basic techniques
• Change hair colour using different techniques

Plus Either:

• Perm and neutralise hair using basic techniques
• Perm, relax and neutralise hair
• Perm, relax and neutralise African Caribbean hair

Plus one of the following optional units:

• Fulfil salon reception
• Promote additional products or services to clients
• Develop and maintain your effectiveness at work
• Style hair using basic plaiting techniques and added hair
• Provide scalp massage services
  

Assessment: Practical tasks will be performed and assessed by a tutor. Portfolio building and project work is also required.

Careers Advice:
Whats the work Like?

As a qualified hairdresser your work would include:

• discussing with the client how they want their hair done, giving advice and suggesting ideas for suitable styles
• shampooing and conditioning
• cutting and styling
• colouring, perming or straightening
• advising on minor hair and scalp problems
• making appointments and handling payments
• ordering materials
• making sure that hair products containing chemicals are used and stored correctly.
  What Kind of work may this lead to?
  

  You could work as a haidresser in salons throughout the UK. You could also find opportunities in a number of other places, such as hotels, hospitals and care homes, cruise liners and armed forces bases.

  Alternatively, you could offer a mobile service, travelling to clients' homes, rather than working in a salon.

  With experience you could progress to jobs such as senior stylist or salon manager

  By taking the appropriate further qualifications, you could move into teaching and/or NVQ assessing.

  Other options include wig making, training in make-up techniques, and working in the television or film