Summary
Are you passionate about hair and beauty, bursting with creativity, and eager to kickstart your career in a vibrant salon environment? Raffaella Hair Studio is looking for an enthusiastic and imaginative individual to join our team as a Salon Apprentice!
Wage
£14,918.80 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age
National Minimum Wage rate for apprentices
Annual Salary
Training course
Hairdressing professional (level 2)
Hours
Tuesday: 9am- 6pm Wednesday: 9am- 6pm Thursday: 10am- 8:30pm Friday: 9am- 6pm Saturday: 8am- 3pm
37 hours 30 minutes a week
Start date
Sunday 7 September 2025
Duration
2 years
Positions available
1
Work
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
What you'll do at work
* Complete general salon duties
* Assist stylists
* Meet and greet clients
* Shampoo and hair condition
* Keep salon tidy
* Make teas and coffees for clients
* Attend training sessions within the salon and at college
Where you'll work
4 Friday Street
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Leighton Buzzard
Bedfordshire
LU7 1AN
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
MILTON KEYNES COLLEGE
Training course
Hairdressing professional (level 2)
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, 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 hair cut, 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.
* 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, 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 hair cut, 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.
Training schedule
* Hair Professional Level 2
* Training with Milton Keynes College
* Ongoing training, support and development with the employer
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
* Maths (grade 9-4)
* English (grade 9-4)
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
* Communication skills
* Attention to detail
* Organisation skills
* Customer care skills.
Other requirements
Predicted grades will be accepted. However, any offers made will be conditional, pending actual grades.