Advanced & Creative Hair Professional – Level 3 Apprenticeship

The Course in Detail

Are you creative, imaginative, want to deliver high standard hair fashion trends and enhance your technical skills in the salon?

As an Advanced and Creative Hair Professional Apprentice, you will provide a quality service, whilst working to the highest standards and continuously developing your personal and professional skills. You will be required to work without supervision, managing yourself and others when required.

You will take ownership of your work and client lists, accept responsibility, be proactive, flexible and adaptable, plan your work and time, and aim for excellence by taking exceptional pride in your work and industry.

As an Advanced and Creative Hair Professional you will:

• demonstrate professionalism by maintaining confidentiality and discretion

• research fashion forward trends, using the results to create, plan and promote a collection of hairstyle looks that reflects your own individuality

• analyse the factors that influence the design and creation of the collection of hairstyle looks, including the target audience

• design a range of looks to create a fashion forward collection of hairstyle looks

• maintain effective and safe methods of working

• use and adapt a range of sectioning and cutting guidelines, creative and precision techniques and technical skills to create and enhance the collection of hairstyle looks

• carry out precision and personalised cutting tailored to individual client characteristics

• formulate imaginative creative advanced colour conversion services to change the depth and tone of the hair

• use a range of creative finishing and dressing techniques, advanced creative colouring techniques to enhance the collection of hairstyle looks

• present, showcase and promote your skills though your collection of hairstyle looks via a variety of media types and platforms

• provide a smoothing strengthening service to clients

• carry out in-depth consultation and complex analysis of the hair

• use and apply the products, tools and equipment, in accordance with legal requirements, manufacturers’ instructions and salon policy

• provide advice on future services and products

• evaluate the results of the service to improve further practice

You will develop your skills, knowledge and behaviours through on and off-the-job training and are expected to attend College on a day release basis.

Entry Requirements & Progression

What You'll Need

You will need to have relevant employment, and entry is subject to interview and assessment.

You will need Level 2 Hairdressing and GCSE English and maths grade 4/C or above (or Level 2 functional skills) are preferred.

This Could Lead to

Completion of this apprenticeship will open up many opportunities in the Hair industry, including roles such as Senior Stylist, Creative Hair Professional or Colour Specialist.

You could also continue to grow your skills with further specialist training, progress to a supervisory role, or set up your own business.

Assessment

Your progress will be continuously monitored and supported by a Professional Trainer.

Depending on the standard, we assess your competence through various methods, such as practical exams, assignments, interviews, project work, presentations or observations and we will also evaluate your portfolio of evidence, which documents your learning and progress throughout your apprenticeship with us.

The apprenticeship end-point assessment is the final evaluation stage of your apprenticeship programme. It's designed to determine whether you have achieved the knowledge, skills, and behaviours required to meet the apprenticeship standard and perform the job role independently.

Successful completion of the end-point assessment is required to receive certification.