Unit of Competency Mapping – Information for Teachers/Assessors – Information for Learners
SHBHCUT008 Mapping and Delivery Guide
Design and perform creative haircuts
Version 1.0
Issue Date: May 2024
Qualification | - |
Unit of Competency | SHBHCUT008 - Design and perform creative haircuts |
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Employability Skills | |||
Learning Outcomes and Application | This unit describes the performance outcomes, skills and knowledge required to research local and international current and emerging hair fashion trends, develop creative hair designs and cut hair creatively into combined structures.This unit applies to senior hairdressers and barbers who work in salons or as session stylists or technical advisors to product companies. They work independently, have considerable specialist skills and knowledge and provide technical leadership, training and support to team members.No occupational licensing, certification or specific legislative requirements apply to this unit at the time of publication. | ||
Duration and Setting | X weeks, nominally xx hours, delivered in a classroom/online/blended learning setting. Skills must be demonstrated in a hairdressing or barbering environment; this can be: a hairdressing or barbering industry workplace, or a simulated hairdressing or barbering workplace, set up for the purpose of skills assessment that provides services to paying members of the public, or industry venues and sites where session events are operated, or session venues and sites operated within a training organisation where real session events are staged in live time. Assessment must ensure use of: clients, with different haircutting requirements; these can be: paying clients in a hairdressing or barbering industry workplace, or paying clients in a simulated hairdressing or barbering workplace within a training organisation who have the expectation that the services provided reflect those of a commercial business models or performers in a session styling setting sufficient client traffic to allow for prioritisation of tasks so that clients are serviced effectively in a logical sequence activities that require the individual to work with commercial speed, timing and productivity to: deal with multiple tasks simultaneously complete client services within designated timeframes that reflect accepted industry practice a hairdressing or barbering services workstation with: one mirror per workstation one adjustable client services chair per workstation one blow dryer with heat diffuser per workstation electric clippers and attachments hairdressing chisels clean client gowns or wraps professional styling and finishing products which can be: gels glazes lotions mousses setting lotions sprays waxes one operator trolley per workstation stocked with: haircutting scissors texturising and thinning shears disposable blade safety razors disposable razor blades combs: cutting combs with fine and coarse ends tapering brushes: Denman style round vent sectioning clips disinfectant products for hairdressing tools lubricants and coolants for electric clippers product instructions template haircut plans. Assessors must satisfy the Standards for Registered Training Organisation’s requirements for assessors; and: hold a Certificate IV qualification in Hairdressing, or be able to demonstrate equivalence of competencies; and have at least three years full time employment experience as a hairdresser in a salon environment where they have applied the skills and knowledge covered in this unit of competency to assess this unit as part of a hairdressing qualification; this cannot include any indentured traineeship or apprenticeship period; or have at least three years full time employment experience as a barber in a shop or salon environment where they have applied the skills and knowledge covered in this unit of competency to assess this unit as part of a barbering qualification; this cannot include any indentured traineeship or apprenticeship period. |
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Competency Field | Haircutting |
Development and validation strategy and guide for assessors and learners | Student Learning Resources | Handouts Activities |
Slides PPT |
Assessment 1 | Assessment 2 | Assessment 3 | Assessment 4 | |
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Elements of Competency | Performance Criteria | |||||||
Element: Research and analyse haircut trends. |
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Element: Consult with client and assess hair. |
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Element: Select equipment and prepare for service. |
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Element: Combine haircut structures and textures for creative effect. |
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Element: Finish hair to shape and review service. |
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