Qualification Details

Qualification details

Title / New Zealand Certificate in Hairdressing (Emerging Stylist) (Level 4)
Version / 1 / Qualification type / Certificate
Level / 4 / Credits / 120
NZSCED / 110303 / Food, Hospitality and Personal Services > Personal Services > Hairdressing
DAS classification / 967 / Service Sector > Beauty Services > Hairdressing
Qualification developer / New Zealand Hair and Beauty Industry Training Organisation Inc (HITO)
Next review / December 2020
Approval date / 24 March 2015
Strategic purpose statement / The purpose of this qualification is to provide the hairdressing industry with individuals who have obtained sufficient knowledge, practical skills and attitudes to perform salon and client services that contribute to the effective operation of the salon.
This qualification is suitable for learners with prior knowledge of salon support and client support services in a hairdressing salon, who wish to develop skills and knowledge towards becoming a hairstylist.
Graduates will be capable of operating at an intermediate level under broad guidance.
Outcome Statement / Graduate profile / Graduates of this qualification will be able to:
1. Perform client consultations, including hair and scalp analysis in relation to chemical services
2. Recommend home hair care products to meet a range of client needs
3. Perform complex styling tasks, including blow waving, fingerwaving, setting and long hair-ups
4. Perform foundation scissor and razor cutting services
5. Select colour and perform a range of colouring and de-colouring services
6. Assist colleagues with a range of chemical reformation services, including application and neutralising
7. Ensure own actions impact positively on the profitability of a salon
Education pathway / This qualification builds on from the New Zealand Certificate in Hairdressing (Salon Support) (Level 3) [Ref: 2411].
This qualification is the second of three qualifications that provide alternative pathways to recognition as a Professional Hairstylist.
Graduates of this qualification may progress into the New Zealand Certificate in Hairdressing (Professional Stylist) (Level4) [Ref: 2413].
Employment pathway / On completion of this qualification a graduate will be equipped to work as an Emerging Stylist in a hairdressing salon.

Qualification specifications

Qualification award / This qualification may be awarded by the organisation with whom the trainee is enrolled. This may be an accredited training provider with an approved programme leading to award of the qualification, or the industry training organisation (HITO) that has arranged training leading to award of this qualification.
The formal document certifying the award of this qualification bears the New Zealand Qualifications Framework logo. It may also include the name or logo of the awarding body.
Evidence requirements for assuring consistency / All TEOs either arranging training or delivering programmes that lead to the award of the qualification are required to participate in a consistency process scheduled by NZQA.
This will involve reviewing evidence associated with graduate’s achievement of outcomes, establishing a periodic cycle for a review focus for the external consistency review, and agreeing acceptable standards and/or benchmarks for qualification outcome achievement, and areas for improvement.
To demonstrate how graduates are achieving the qualification graduate profile outcomes, TEOs are required to produce their own evidence in a high level report.
Evidence will include the following:
· Employer surveys to determine if graduates of the qualification are achieving graduate profile outcomes.
· Evidence of effective processes to identify changing training needs of industry.
· A range of workplace evidence demonstrating that graduates meet the graduate profile outcomes.
· Any other relevant evidence as appropriate.
The purpose of the managing consistency event is to:
· review evidence associated with achievement of qualification outcomes at the level of the qualification.
· identify issues or opportunities associated with outcome achievement.
Further information can be found on the NZQA website.
Credit transfer and recognition of prior learning arrangements / Recognition of existing skills and knowledge will be arranged by the tertiary education organisation (TEO) providing the programme leading to the qualification.
TEOs must have policies and procedures in place for managing credit transfer and for recognising prior learning and current competency. These policies and procedures, along with details of associated fees, must be available to the applicant prior to their enrolment.
To facilitate credit transfer, TEOs must clearly demonstrate the equivalency between each of the outcomes in the graduate profile, and the assessment components of their programmes.
Graduates of this qualification who go on to enter into workplace-based learning will be granted credit recognition for this qualification and the New Zealand Certificate in Hairdressing (Salon Support) (Level 3) towards the New Zealand Certificate in Hairdressing (Professional Hairstylist) (Level 4). They will only need to complete training for the further skills and knowledge required for the Professional Hairstylist qualification. This typically means an additional 70 credits worth of learning, practice and assessment in order to meet the graduate profile outcomes for that qualification.
Minimum standard of achievement and standards for grade endorsements / The minimum standard of achievement required for the award of the qualification will be the achievement of all the graduate outcomes in the graduate profile.
There are no grade endorsements for this qualification.
Entry requirements (including prerequisites to meet regulatory body or legislative requirements) / The New Zealand Certificate in Hairdressing (Salon Support) (Level 3) [Ref: 2411] or equivalent skills and knowledge.

Qualification conditions

Overarching conditions relating to the qualification

Conditions for programme structure / There is no required sequence for the assessment of individual graduate outcomes.
Wherever possible and suitable, the graduate outcomes should be assessed through practical activities, rather than through written tests or assignments.
Programme delivery must ensure that assessment of the outcomes requires candidates at all times to follow safe practices that ensure personal safety and the safety of clients, staff and the environment.
Conditions for programme context / Programme delivery must ensure that for all practical hairdressing skills assessment must happen on live models from outside the learning environment unless specified that mannequins may be used.
Other conditions / Where programmes do not include the optional unit standards set out below as specific conditions relating to the graduate profile, programme developers should consider the listed unit standards as a guide to the minimum requirements for programme content.

Specific conditions relating to the Graduate profile

Qualification outcomes / Conditions / Mandatory or Optional
1 / Perform client consultations, including hair and scalp analysis in relation to chemical services.
15 credits / Unit standard 2755 / Optional
2 / Recommend home hair care products to meet a range of client needs.
5 credits / Unit standard 2878
Unit standard 28838 / Optional
3 / Perform complex styling tasks, including blow waving, fingerwaving, setting and long hair-ups.
25 credits / Unit standard 2879
Unit standard 2880
Unit standard 25078
Unit standard 25793 / Optional
4 / Perform foundation scissor and razor cutting services.
30 credits / Unit standard 2884
Unit standard 2885 / Optional
5 / Select colour and perform a range of colouring and de-colouring services.
20 credits / Unit standard 12313
Unit standard 19791
Unit standard 19792
Unit standard 28836
Unit standard 28849 / Optional
6 / Assist with a range of chemical reformation services, including application and neutralising.
20 credits / Unit standard 2892
Unit standard 28839 / Optional
7 / Ensure their actions impact positively on the profitability of a salon.
5 credits / Unit standard 25437 / Optional

Transition information

Replacement information / This qualification does not replace any National qualification.

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