Program Overview

Salon Management FdA

Overview

This salon management course gives you the skills and knowledge to set up a beauty salon business and manage it effectively. Learn about the services provided by a beauty therapist and your role as a salon manager.

Course Details

Course Structure

Year 1 Core Modules

• Managing and Developing People
  • Gain a theoretical and practical understanding of managing and developing people in the industry.
  • Examine the importance of effective recruitment and selection, and key aspects of employment law.
• Sales and Marketing
  • Marketing plays a significant role in any industry, but particularly in the service sector.
  • Examine factors that influence the marketing of products and services and analyse the effectiveness of promotional campaigns.
• Starting a Business
  • Working on a hypothetical organisation of your choice, apply your wider learning by setting up your own business, considering all aspects and providing supporting documentation to demonstrate your capability.
• The Work Environment and Self-Analysis
  • Research and explore your industry of interest and formulate a career action plan, detailing your strengths and weaknesses to bridge any skills and knowledge gaps.

Hairdressing Pathway

• Advanced Colour for the Hair Practitioner
  • Get an advanced insight into colouring within the hairdressing sector, learning the science of colour and correction techniques.
  • Gain the theoretical and practical skills required to pursue a career in hairdressing, and explore a holistic approach to colour, examining product effectiveness and considering health and safety requirements.

Beauty and Aesthetics Pathway

• Sustainable Beauty and Aesthetics
  • Examine sustainable beauty and aesthetics in a commercial environment and develop advanced creative products, skills and understanding.
  • Explore common management practices and cultures including key competencies required to offer this type of product.

Year 2 Core Modules

• Cultural Awareness in Industry
  • Increasing globalisation within service industries presents a range of cultural awareness and diversity challenges to managers.
  • Use recognised theory and principles to understand their impact on business activities, exploring different approaches to working across national boundaries, and developing an appreciation of the complexities faced by managers in dealing with this.
• Industry-related Project
  • Apply your wider learning in a working environment.
  • Take part in a project with an organisation of your choice to improve an aspect of its operations.
• Wellbeing
  • Understand the importance of diet and exercise, and examine the effects of stress and hereditary conditions on hairdressing and beauty aesthetics.
  • Demonstrate your understanding of the impact of poor health practice and explore the benefits of products and treatments in relation to health and wellbeing.

Hairdressing Pathway

• Advanced and Creative Styling
  • Explore current creative styling trends in the hairdressing sector and their key drivers and influences.
  • Examine issues relating to design and development, as well as staffing, health and safety, and use of specialist equipment.
• Setting Standards and the Commercial Environment
  • Explore the salon environment including products, their application and commercial benefits.
  • Learn about common management practices and culture, and key competencies required to assess in a salon.

Beauty and Aesthetics Pathway

• Aesthetic Principles and Practice
  • Gain advanced insight into aesthetic beauty therapy within the sector, considering the science behind aesthetic techniques, and understanding the theoretical and practical skills required to pursue a career in this environment.
• Ageing and the Physiology of Skin
  • Gain an overview of ageing and styling in beauty and aesthetics.
  • You explore current treatments within the sector, as well as key drivers and influences.

How You Learn

• You attend a number of formal lectures at Hartlepool College of Further Education.
• These sessions introduce module content and assessments, teach module content and provide time for learning and reflection, and give time to prepare and complete assessments.
• You also undertake weekly one-to-one and group tutorials.
• Practice hours allow you to develop and refine your skills in salon operations.

How You Are Assessed

• Assessments are not specified in the provided content.

Entry Requirements

• A typical offer is 40-48 tariff points from at least two A levels, T level or equivalent.

Employability

• You are prepared for a career as a salon owner, entrepreneur, hairdresser, beauty therapist, aesthetic therapist, instructor or assessor.

Full-time

• Fee for UK applicants: £6,340 a year
• Length: 2 years
• UCAS code: N872 FdA/SM
• Start date: September

Part-time

• Not available part-time

Choose Teesside

• Are you eligible for an iPad, keyboard and up to £300 credit for learning resources?
• Live in affordable accommodation right on-campus - from only £100 a week
• Study in our town-centre campus with £280m of recent investment.
• Study at Europe's first Adobe Creative Campus and develop your creative and digital skills.