VTCT Skills
Level 3
QN: 500/7389/8
Curriculum Active
VTCT Skills Level 3 NVQ Diploma in Hairdressing
Official qualification regulated by Ofqual, awarded by VTCT Skills. Classified as a Occupational Qualification. Total guided learning hours: 781 hours.
Qualification Level
Level 3
Awarding Body
VTCT Skills
Syllabus Units
16 Units
Guided Hours
781 hrs
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Course Syllabus & Study Modules
Complete breakdown of verified curriculum topics and learning objectives.
1
Colour hair using a variety of techniques
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Be able to maintain safe and effective methods of working when colouring and lightening hair
- Be able to prepare for colouring and lightening services
- Be able to creatively colour and lighten hair
- Be able to lighten hair
- Be able to re
- solve basic colouring problems
- Understand salon and legal requirements
- Understand how to work safely, effectively and hygienically when colouring and lightening hair
- Understand methods of testing used for colouring and lightening services
- Understand colouring science
- Understand how to use colouring and lightening products and equipment
- Understand colouring and lightening techniques
- Understand the aftercare advice to provide for colouring and lightening services
2
Contribute to the financial effectiveness of the business
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Contribute to the effective use and monitoring of resources
- Be able to meet productivity and development targets
- Understand salon procedures and legal requirements
- Understand the use, monitoring and recording of resources
- Understand effective methods of communication
- Understand work and time management
- Understand productivity and development targets
3
Contribute to the planning and implementation of promotional activities
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Be able to contribute to the planning and preparation of promotional activities
- Be able to implement promotional activities
- Be able to participate in the evaluation of promotional activities
- Understand the venue and legal requirements
- Understand how to plan and prepare promotional events
- Understand how to sell products and services
- Understand communication techniques
- Understand evaluation methods and techniques
4
Create a variety of permed effects
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Be able to maintain effective and safe working methods when perming hair
- Be able to prepare for perming
- Be able to create a variety of permed effects
- Know the salon and legal requirements
- Understand the importance of working safely, effectively and hygienically when perming
- Understand the importance of testing for perming services
- Know about the science of perming
- Know about perming products, equipment and their use
- Know about perming techniques and problems
- Understand how to communicate and provide aftercare advice to clients
5
Creatively cut hair using a combination of techniques
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Be able to maintain effective and safe working methods when cutting hair
- Be able to creatively restyle women’s hair
- Understand salon and legal requirements
- Understand the importance of working safely, effectively and hygienically when setting and dressing hair
- Understand hair growth factors
- Understand the use of products
- Understand cutting techniques, looks and problems
- Understand how to communicate and provide aftercare advice for clients
6
Creatively dress long hair
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Be able to maintain effective and safe methods of working when dressing long hair by
- Be able to creatively dress long hair
- Understand salon and legal requirements
- Understand how to work safely, effectively and hygienically when dressing long hair
- Understand the hairdressing science for dressing long hair
- Understand products and equipment for dressing long hair and how to use them
- Understand preparation activities, techniques and methods for dressing long hair
- Understand the aftercare advice to provide for dressing long hair
7
Creatively style and dress hair
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Be able to maintain effective and safe working methods when styling hair
- Be able to creatively style and dress hair
- Understand salon and legal requirements
- Understand the importance of working safely, effectively and hygienically when setting and dressing hair
- Understand the science of styling and dressing hair
- Understand the use of products and equipment
- Understand the use of styling, dressing and finishing techniques
- Understand how to communicate and provide aftercare advice for clients
8
Develop and enhance creative hairdressing skills
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Be able to plan and design a range of images
- Be able to produce a range of creative images
- Be able to evaluate the results against the design plan objectives
- Understand how to communicate effectively
- Understand how to use basic principles of design and presentation
- Understand how to evaluate own performance
- Understand how to work safely, effectively and hygienically when creating a hairdressing design image
- Understand how to use planning and preparation skills
- Understand how to use styling, dressing and finishing techniques
9
Monitor procedures to safely control work operations
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- be able to check that health and safety instructions are followed
- be able to recommend changes to health and safety workplace instructions.
- be able to make sure that hazards and risks are controlled safely and effectively.
- know how to monitor procedures to safely control work operations
10
Promote additional services or products to customers
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- identify additional services or products that are available, inform customers about additional services or products, gain customer commitment to using additional services or products
- understand how to promote additional services or products to customers
11
Provide colour correction services
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Be able to maintain safe and effective methods of working when correcting hair colour problems
- Be able to determine the colour problem
- Be able to plan and agree a course of action to correct colour
- Be able to provide colour correction services
- Understand salon and legal requirements
- Understand how to work safely, effectively and hygienically when correcting hair colour problems
- Understand how to use different types of tests for colour correction
- Understand the science of colouring hair
- Understand how to use colouring products and equipment
- Understand how to use colouring techniques when correcting colouring
12
Provide creative hair extension services
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Be able to maintain effective and safe methods of working when adding hair extensions
- Be able to plan and prepare to add hair extensions
- Be able to attach hair extensions
- Be able to cut and finish hair with extensions
- Be able to maintain and remove hair extensions
- Understand the salon’s and legal requirements
- Understand how to work safely, effectively and hygienically when adding hair extensions
- Understand tests and testing procedures for hair extension services
- Understand hair and skin structure
- Understand preparation requirements for hair extension services
- Understand how to perform hair extension services
- Understand problem solving when adding hair extensions
- Understand cutting and finishing techniques and products when working with extensions
- Understand how to communicate and provide aftercare advice for clients
13
Provide Hair and Scalp Treatments
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Be able to maintain safe and effective methods of working when providing hair and scalp treatments
- Be able to plan
- prepare and perform the hair and scalp treatment
- Understand organisational and legal requirements
- Understand how to work safely, effectively and hygienically when carrying out hair and scalp treatments
- Understand the anatomy and physiology of the hair and scalp
- Understand hair and scalp treatments and aftercare advice for clients
14
Provide hairdressing consultation services
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Be able to identify clients’ needs and wishes
- Be able to analyse the hair, skin and scalp and make recommendations to clients
- be able to advise clients on hair maintenance and management and agree services
- Understand salon and legal requirements
- Understand services, products and pricing
- Understand hair growth
- Understand how to perform hair, skin and scalp analysis
- Understand how to communicate and provide aftercare advice
15
Provide Specialist Consultation Services for Hair and Scalp Conditions
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Be able to establish client requirements
- Be able to identify hair and scalp conditions
- Be able to review options and decide on a course of action
- Understand organisational and legal requirements
- Understand how to consult with clients
- Understand contra-indications to treatments and hair and scalp analysis
- Understand the anatomy and physiology of the hair and skin
16
Support customer service improvements
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- use feedback to identify potential customer service improvements
- implement changes in customer service, assist with the evaluation of changes in customer service
- know how to support customer service improvements
Regulatory & Verification Details
- Qualification Number (QN)
- 500/7389/8
- Regulated Status
- Available to learners
- Awarding Body
- VTCT Skills
- Qualification Type
- Occupational Qualification
- Operational Start
- Sept 2009