Beauty Therapy - Level 2 NVQ Diploma

Essentials

Duration: 1 Year Full-time
Start date: 4th September 2023
End date: 7th June 2024
Information event: Y

Course fee: FREE (See eligibility criteria)

Additional fees:

£190 for kit, £70 for uniform/tunic (these are approximates)

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Course Content

• Ensure Responsibility for actions to reduce risks to health and safety
• Fulfil salon reception duties
• Develop and Maintain effectiveness at work
• Promote additional services or products to clients 
• Provide facial skin care treatment
• Enhance the appearance of eyebrows and eyelashes
• Carry out waxing services
• Provide manicure services
• Provide pedicure treatments
• Provide make-up services
• Provide Nail Art

If you are accepted onto this course without a Grade C or above in Maths and/or English you will be required to complete the relevant Essential Skills qualification.  This will be a compulsory part of your timetable.

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Special Features

• Industrial trips to spas and trade beauty shows may be included, both to enhance and compliment the mandatory units and to facilitate industrial requirements.
• Salon experience is desirable but not compulsory.
• Uniform and kit purchase is mandatory.

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Assessment Methods

The summative assessments for the qualifications require the candidates to undertake:

• Practical tasks, and
• Knowledge and understanding task(s) and online testing

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Course Update

Please note that due to ongoing major campus construction projects courses at Ballymena, Coleraine and Ballymoney may be relocated to alternative suitable locations as required.

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Applicants should have at least 2 GCSEs at Grade C or above, or other relevant qualifications. In circumstances where there are more applications for the course than there are places available, the College reserves the right to ask for higher grades.

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Employment or Level 3 VRQ in Beauty Therapy.

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