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The Advanced and Creative Hair Professional qualification will develop creative, passionate, and driven professionals who work without supervision, managing themselves and others when required. They will provide a quality service, whilst working to the highest standards and continuously developing their personal and professional skills. An Advanced and Creative Hair Professional qualification supports apprentices to take ownership of their work and client lists, accept responsibility, are proactive, flexible and adaptable, plan their work and time, they aim for excellence by taking exceptional pride in their work and industry. They become highly skilled and experienced individual professionals who deliver hair fashion forward trends, which are innovative styles inspired by current images and their own creativity, individual flair, imagination and interpretation.
Key Facts
Mode of Attendance:
The Apprenticeship course is normally full time, which might include attending college on a day release or your tutor visiting you in the workplace.
Level:
Advanced Apprenticeship
Dates:
You have to be employed to start an Apprenticeship. You can either apply for one of our vacancies, or you can source your own employer.
Course Code:
AP3XACH
The Programme
Includes
Must complete a range of assessments practical and online exam. Regular formative and summative assessment, development of a portfolio demonstrating learning and development activities with their application in the workplace.
As part of the qualification, Apprentices must prove competency of all units and be competent in real work environment.
An Advanced and Creative Hair Professional:
- Demonstrates professionalism by maintaining confidentiality and discretion
- Researches fashion forward trends, using the results to create, plan and promote a collection of hairstyle looks that reflects their own individuality
- Analyses the factors that influence the design and creation of the collection of hairstyle looks, including the target audience
- Designs a range of looks to create a fashion forward collection of hairstyle looks
- Maintains effective and safe methods of working
- Uses 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
- Carries out precision and personalised cutting tailored to individual client characteristics
- Formulates imaginative creative advanced colour conversion services to change the depth and tone of the hair
- Uses a range of creative finishing and dressing techniques, advanced creative colouring techniques to enhance the collection of hairstyle looks
- Presents, showcases and promotes their skills though their collection of hairstyle looks via a variety of media types and platforms
- Provides a smoothing strengthening service to clients
- Carries out in-depth consultation and complex analysis of the hair
- Uses and applies the products, tools and equipment, in accordance with legal requirements, manufacturers' instructions and salon policy
- Provides advice on future services and products
- Evaluates the results of the service to improve further practice
Where you
can work
Creative hair stylists, Advanced senior stylists, Senior hair professional or Specialist technicians.
Key
Information
- Additional training is provided at Loughborough college if required.
- Functional Skills if required will take place during intensive weeks. A schedule of these weeks will be provided and discussed during enrolment.
Awarding
Organisation
- End Point Assessment Organisation (EPAO) of choice is City and Guilds
Additional
Information
This Apprenticeship primarily consists of learning in the work place. Taught delivery sessions at Loughborough College will be available if the apprentice requires additional training but is not mandatory.
6-8 weekly visits will be made to the salon to check progression of the apprenticeship and competency of the knowledge, skills and behaviours.
Entry Requirements
& Functional Skills
Typically, 3 GCSE’s at Grade 4/C or above (one must be English or Maths), or Level 2 in Hairdressing required. (VQR)
Apprentices with GCSE grades C/4 or above in English and Maths are exempt from Functional Skills.
If an Apprentice has not already achieved Level 2 (GCSE C/4 or above) English & Maths they must: - Study for and take tests for Level 2 English & Maths and achieve Level 1 English & Maths.
Initial Assessment results on enrolment: Maths Entry 3 and English Level 1 or higher.
Qualification(s)
Obtained
- L3 Advanced hair professional
- L2 Functional Skills English and Maths
Progression
Opportunities
TAQA – assessor award
PTLLS L3 Teaching course
Training
Provided
On-programme is the learning phase for Apprentices to apply the academic theory to their own organisations and role, and to capture the skills, knowledge and behaviours developed on the programme and in the workplace. To achieve this, Apprentices need to complete off-the-job training during the on-programme phase of their Apprenticeship, this can be tracked and monitored through our e-portfolio. This might be achieved through shadowing colleagues, E-learning, internal training and research in addition to this, taught sessions at Loughborough College will be available should the apprentice require this. Level 3 apprentices will be required to be working in a hair salon as a stylist and running and maintaining their own client base.
Disclaimer
Whilst every effort is made to ensure that the information contained on this website is correct, the College accepts no liability for any errors or omissions. Please note that details are subject to change without notice with regard to the provision of courses, course times and dates and the fees and charges levied.