Salon Apprentice
HAIR EXPERIENCE LIMITED
Bedfordshire (LU5 6BY)
Closes in 15 days (Thursday 23 April 2026 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 8 April 2026
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Summary
Salon Apprentice - Start Your Career in Hairdressing! Creative and sociable? Join our friendly salon, earn while you learn, and train one day a week at MK College. Get hands-on experience, support from skilled stylists, and grow into a qualified hair professional. Perfect for enthusiastic, hardworking starters.
- Wage
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£16,640 a year
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Annual Salary
- Training course
- Hairdressing professional (level 2)
- Hours
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Tuesday - Saturday (includes one late night) Shifts to be confirmed
40 hours a week
- Start date
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Sunday 6 September 2026
- Duration
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2 years
- Positions available
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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
This role is ideal for someone who lives close to Toddington, Bletchley, Dunstable, Houghton Regis or surrounding villages, and can easily travel to the salon.
What You’ll Be Doing:
You’ll learn everything you need for a successful career in hairdressing, including:
- Shampooing & conditioning
- Helping stylists with colouring, cutting & styling
- Greeting clients and making them feel amazing
- Keeping the salon looking polished and professional
- Reception and customer service duties
- Supporting the team during busy periods
We’re looking for someone who is:
- Friendly and confident talking to people
- Creative and enjoys working with their hands
- A team player
- Reliable and organised
- Interested in the hairdressing industry
- Keen to learn and grow
Where you'll work
26 High St, Toddington
Dunstable
Bedfordshire
LU5 6BY
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)
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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
You'll train one day a week at Milton Keynes College’s Graduate Salon in Bletchley, learning professional techniques - and spend the rest of the week gaining hands‑on experience in our busy salon working towards your Professional Hairdressing Apprenticeship
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
- Team Work
- Reliable
- Willing to Learn
Other requirements
- Free hair services
- Discounts on top-quality products
- Fun team outings
- Supportive, friendly team
- Real salon experience from day one
About this employer
Hair Experience - Trading as Capello Hair Design is a friendly, modern salon based right in the heart of Toddington. We use high‑quality L’Oréal professional products and offer hair services for all ages. With a small, supportive team, our salon is the perfect place to kick‑start your career in hairdressing.
After this apprenticeship
- Step into a stylist role in the salon, upon successful completion of the apprenticeship
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
MILTON KEYNES COLLEGE
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000025384.
Apply now
Closes in 15 days (Thursday 23 April 2026 at 11:59pm)