This unit describes the performance outcomes, skills and knowledge required to participate in session styling teams creating finished hair designs. Sessions are diverse and can include fashion parades, hair shows, technical seminars, platform demonstrations, training sessions and fashion shoots as well as film, television and theatre productions.

This unit applies to hairdressers and barbers with well-developed skills who work in teams, in and outside the salon preparing hair for the event. They use discretion and judgement but ultimately work under the direction of the team leader of the session.

No occupational licensing, certification or specific legislative requirements apply to this unit at the time of publication.

Evidence of the ability to complete tasks outlined in elements and performance criteria of this unit in the context of the job role, and:

assemble and package tools, equipment and products for at least one on-location session

complete session styling tasks, under the direction of a session-styling team leader, according the technical and design brief for own individual models or performers for at least two different sessions.

Demonstrated knowledge required to complete the tasks outlined in elements and performance criteria of this unit:

overall brief or objectives of the session

technical and design brief for own models or performers

key characteristics and interrelationships of the elements and principles of hair design and use in achieving hair finished hair designs

hairdressing product range available for the session:

product purpose

action on the hair

mixing and application instructions

processing and developing times

role and basic content of Safety Data Sheets (SDS) or plain English workplace documents or diagrams that interpret SDS content

industry practices and organisational procedures for:

model or performer comfort and safety with particular emphasis on:

using gown and towels to protect clothes

avoiding product contact with eyes

monitoring client scalp comfort and condition

work health and safety when working in session teams at an external venue.

Skills must be demonstrated in venues and sites where sessions are operated; these can be:

industry venues and sites

venues and sites operated within a training organisation where real session events are staged in live time.

Assessment must ensure use of:

activities that require the individual to participate in session styling teams in live time where time pressures and constraints play a key factor

a session team leader from whom the individual takes direction

models or performers, for whom the individual provides services during the assessment process

a hairdressing or barbering services workstation set up at a session venue or site

hairdressing equipment and a diverse range of tools, set up at a session styling venue or site, that match the hair design requirements of the particular session

a diverse professional range of hair products that match the hair design requirements of the particular session

documented:

overall brief or objectives of the session

technical and design brief for individual models or performers

checklists of resources required for individual session stylists

organisational procedures for:

model or performer comfort and safety

work health and safety when working in session teams at an external venue.

Assessors must satisfy the Standards for Registered Training Organisation’s requirements for assessors; and:

hold a Certificate III in Hairdressing, or a Certificate III in Barbering, or a Certificate IV 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.

Hairdressing

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