Hairdressing Apprentice
V SALON LTD
Macclesfield (SK11 6BX)
Closes in 24 days (Tuesday 26 August 2025 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 1 August 2025
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Summary
During your apprenticeship you will be guided through styling, cutting and colouring techniques preparing you for your end assessment. We will also give you lots of extra training on colour techniques like balayage and colour blocking. As we keep up to date with latest trends you can be confident that you’ll gain relevant and usable experience.
- Wage
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£14,918.80 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age
National Minimum Wage rate for apprentices
- Training course
- Hairdressing professional (level 2)
- Hours
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Monday in college, Wednesday 10am-7:00pm, Thursday between 9am-8pm, Friday 10 am-6pm, Saturday 8am-4pm
38 hours 15 minutes a week
- Start date
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Monday 1 September 2025
- Duration
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2 years 3 months
- Positions available
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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
Duties:
- Preparing the salon for clients
- Dusting retail shelves and ensuring they’re fully stocked
- Ensure all areas and equipment are clean
- Sweeping floors
- Washing cups
- Cleaning tint bowls & tint brushes
- Cleaning styling brushes
- Shampooing hair/taking colour off
- Making refreshments for clients
- Greeting all clients in a warm welcoming manner
- Notify the correct member of staff if stock levels are low on shampoo etc.
- Listening to consultations and making suggestions if appropriate
- Learning the salon and home care ranges and suggesting appropriate products for clients
Where you'll work
19 Chestergate
Macclesfield
SK11 6BX
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
MACCLESFIELD 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
- Monday day release at Macclesfield College for training - Level 2 Hair Professional Apprenticeship Qualification
- Functional skills in maths and English (if required)
Requirements
Desirable qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade 4/C+)
- Maths (grade 4/C+)
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- Customer care skills
- Creative
- Professional
- Team player
- Willingness to learn
- Hardworking
- Enthusiastic
- Passionate
Other requirements
Things to consider: You must be able to work Saturdays and one late evening a week. Company benefits: Discount on products, hair done for free every 8 weeks and team events.
About this employer
We are Macclesfields newest Salon. We are sustainable. We are inclusive. We care. We are rebellious. We are friends. We are family. We are the salon for people who dont like salons. We work with the leading names in th hair and beauty world. We invest heavily in training with ample opportunity for in salon trainnig sessions and sessions at the Wella Studios in Manchester. We carry the best products and strive to offer the highest quality of services. We care about the planet which is why we’re part of the green salon collective. We ensure the salon is a warm and friendly place where everyone feels welcome and comfortable. We want everyone to feel as though this can be their safe space so come as you are!
After this apprenticeship
As a salon we believe that you are always learning as we’re in an ever-changing industry. We would like to take on someone who also shares these values and therefore would be looking at continuing onto their Level 3 once Level 2 is completed.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
MACCLESFIELD COLLEGE
Maxim Business Training
apprenticeshiprecruitment@macclesfield.ac.uk
+441625410022
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000335082.
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Closes in 24 days (Tuesday 26 August 2025 at 11:59pm)
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