VTCT Skills · RQF Level 3
VTCT Skills (ITEC) Level 3 NVQ Diploma in Hairdressing
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 3
- Total credits68
- Guided learning541 hours
- Units in this qualification14
Awarded by VTCT Skills · on the Ofqual register
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What each unit actually teaches you to do
NVQ Diploma in Hairdressing RQF Level 3 UK Accreditation: 601/5798/7 Product Code: HNVQ3 ITEC Qual ID: 519 Units Documents Exams Approved Centres Unit Code Unit Level URN 693 Creatively Style and Dress Hair Level 3 K/506/9378 compulsory 694 Creatively Cut Hair Using a Combination of Techniques Level 3 H/506/9783 compulsory 695 Creatively Colour and Lighten Hair Level 3 K/506/9364 compulsory 699 Provide Client Consultation Services Level 3 A/506/9367 compulsory 671 Cut Men's Hair Using Basic Techniques Level 2 J/506/9775 optional 687 Fulfil Salon Reception Duties Level 2 R/506/9584 optional 688 Provide a Variety of Relaxing Services Level 3 Y/506/9361 optional 696 Hair Colour Correction Services Level 4 M/506/9365 optional 697 Provide Creative Hair Extension Services Level 3 M/506/9379 optional 698 Create a Variety of Permed Effects Level 3 T/506/9366 optional 700 Develop and Enhance Your Creative Hairdressing Skills Level 4 H/506/9380 optional 701 Provide Specialist Hair and Scalp Treatments Level 4 Y/506/9585 optional 702 Contribute to the Planning and Implementation of Promotional Activities Level 4 D/506/9586 optional 703 Contribute to the Financial Effectiveness of the Business Level 3 H/506/9587 optional
These are the units VTCT Skills registers against this qualification. It is a catalogue, not a syllabus. Which of them you take depends on the combination the qualification requires, and that is set by the awarding body rather than by us. Every unit here is regulated, and every one you earn is yours to keep.
Contribute to the financial effectiveness of the businessReal unit · VTCT Skills
What you'll be able to do
- Contribute to the financial effectiveness of the salon business
- Understand salon procedures for ensuring the financial effectiveness of the salon business
- Understand the legal requirements for ensuring the financial effectiveness of the salon business
- Understand resource use within the salon business
- Monitor resource use within the salon business
- Record resource use within the salon business
- Understand how effective communication affects the achievement of productivity targets
- Understand how effective communication affects the achievement of development targets
Contribute to the planning, implementation and evaluation of promotional activitiesReal unit · VTCT Skills
What you'll be able to do
- Plan promotional activities
- Implement promotional activities
- Evaluate promotional activities
- Understand the impact of health and safety on promotional activities
- Understand how to plan for a promotional activity
- Understand how to run a promotional activity
- Understand the importance of evaluating promotional activities
Create a variety of permed effectsReal unit · VTCT Skills
What you'll be able to do
- Creatively perm hair
- Understand how health and safety policies and procedures affect creative perming and neutralising services
- Understand the factors that influence the perming and neutralising service
- Understand the science of the perming and neutralising service
- Understand the tools, equipment, products and techniques used for perming and neutralising services
Creatively Cut Hair Using a Combination of TechniquesReal unit · VTCT Skills
What you'll be able to do
- Cut hair using a combination of techniques
- Understand how health and safety policies and procedures affect creative cutting services
- Understand the factors that influence creative cutting services
- Understand the tools, equipment, products and techniques used to creatively cut hair
Creatively colour and lighten hairReal unit · VTCT Skills
What you'll be able to do
- Creatively colour and lighten hair
- Understand how health and safety policies and procedures affect colouring and lightening services
- Understand the factors that may influence colouring and lightening services
- Understand the science of colouring and lightening hair
- Understand the tools, equipment, products and techniques used for creative colouring and lightening services
Creatively style and dress hairReal unit · VTCT Skills
What you'll be able to do
- Creatively style and dress hair
- Understand how health and safety affects creative hair styling and dressing services
- Know the factors that influence creative hair styling and dressing services
- Understand the science of styling and dressing hair
- Understand the tools, equipment, products and techniques used to creatively style and dress hair
Cut Men's Hair Using Basic TechniquesReal unit · VTCT Skills
What you'll be able to do
- Cut hair using basic barbering techniques, ensuring client comfort and satisfaction
- Know how health and safety policies and procedures affect cutting services, maintaining a safe and hygienic working environment
- Understand the factors that influence cutting services, including client consultation, hair type and desired style
- Understand the tools, equipment and products used in basic barbering techniques, selecting appropriate items for each service
Develop, enhance and evaluate your creative hairdressing skillsReal unit · VTCT Skills
What you'll be able to do
- Plan a range of creative hair designs
- Develop a range of creative hair designs
- Understand how health and safety policies affect the creation of images for promotional activities
- Understand how health and safety procedures affect the creation of images for promotional activities
- Understand the factors that influence the planning of creative hair designs
- Understand the factors that influence the presentation of creative hair designs
- Understand the tools used to create hair designs
- Understand the equipment used to create hair designs
- Understand the products used to create hair designs
- Understand the techniques used to create hair designs
Fulfil Salon reception dutiesReal unit · VTCT Skills
What you'll be able to do
- Effectively carry out salon reception duties, including greeting clients, managing appointments, and handling payments
- Understand salon and legal requirements for carrying out salon reception duties, ensuring compliance with relevant regulations and industry standards
- Know the day-to-day operations of the salon, including staff roles, service offerings, and administrative procedures
Hair colour correction servicesReal unit · VTCT Skills
What you'll be able to do
- Carry out hair colour correction services
- Understand how health and safety policies affect hair colour correction services
- Understand how health and safety procedures affect hair colour correction services
- Understand the factors that influence hair colour correction services
- Understand the science of hair colour correction services
- Understand the products used in hair colour correction services
- Understand the techniques used in hair colour correction services
Provide a variety of relaxing servicesReal unit · VTCT Skills
What you'll be able to do
- Provide a variety of relaxing services, adapting techniques to meet individual client needs
- Understand how health and safety policies and procedures affect the provision of relaxing services, including risk assessments
- Understand the factors that may influence the choice of relaxing services, such as client preferences, hair type, and scalp condition
- Understand the science of relaxing hair, including the chemical processes involved and potential effects on hair structure
- Understand the tools, equipment, products and techniques used for relaxing services, including their safe and effective application
Provide client consultation servicesReal unit · VTCT Skills
What you'll be able to do
- Provide consultation for hair services, identifying client needs and expectations
- Understand the relevant policies and procedures when carrying out consultation services, including data protection and confidentiality
- Understand the science of hair, skin and scalp, including their structure, function, and common conditions
Provide creative hair extension servicesReal unit · VTCT Skills
What you'll be able to do
- Attach hair extensions
- Understand how health and safety polices and procedures affect hair extension services
- Understand the factors that influence hair extension services
- Understand the tools, equipment, products and techniques used for hair extension services
Provide specialist hair and scalp treatmentsReal unit · VTCT Skills
What you'll be able to do
- Provide specialist hair treatments to address specific hair conditions
- Provide specialist scalp treatments to address specific scalp conditions
- Understand how health and safety policies and procedures affect the provision of specialist hair and scalp treatments, including contraindications
- Understand the factors that influence the selection and application of specialist hair and scalp treatments, such as client history and scalp analysis
- Understand the science of specialist hair and scalp treatments, including the composition and effects of different treatment products
- Understand the products, tools, equipment and techniques used for hair and scalp treatments, including their correct usage and maintenance
The honest bit
You’ve started things before
Most courses were built for a room full of people who aren’t you. A cohort moves on whether or not your week allowed it, and by the third week the thing you’re behind on becomes the reason you stop opening it.
There’s no cohort here, and no timetable to fall behind. Before anything starts, Zavmo asks when you’re sharpest and how long you can realistically sit down for, then builds the sessions around those answers. A bad fortnight changes your pace. It doesn’t put you behind.
And you only pay once you start learning. Searching and planning are free, and you can cancel any time — so the cost of finding out is an afternoon, not a year.
Your passport
Every credit is a stamp you keep
Level 3 credits are regulated. They don’t vanish when a subscription ends or a website closes. They travel to any employer, and Zavmo keeps the map of what you’ve earned and what’s next.
Each stamp is a real unit registered against this qualification.
Who’d teach you this
The Evidence Evaluator
Assessor
Helps you show what you can actually do, gathering the evidence that proves it as you learn.
Meet all twelve tutorsWhere this connects
Where these credits take you
A qualification is never a dead end here. See the jobs its credits open, the national occupational standards its units map to, and the future skills they quietly build.
- Creatively colour and lighten the hair using advanced techniques
- Creatively set, style, dress and finish hair using advanced techniques
- Plan, implement and evaluate promotional activities
Skills it covers
What the job actually needs. These are the standards the units are built against, in the words employers and awarding bodies already use for the work itself.
How you’ll actually learn this
One-to-one, on your own real work
A qualification is usually something done to you: sit the class, sit the exam, hope it sticks. Here it’s the opposite. You learn it one-to-one with a companion, on your own real work, and you keep going until you can use it, not just recall it.
Applied to your own work
Learners will develop the ability to contribute to the financial effectiveness of a salon business by implementing procedures for resource management, monitoring stock levels, and promoting services. The unit also covers legal requirements and communication methods that impact financial performance.
- Remember
- Understand
- Apply
- Analyse
- Evaluate
- Create
Built for VTCT Skills (ITEC) Level 3 NVQ Diploma in Hairdressing
14 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by VTCT Skills.
- Contribute to the financial effectiveness of the business
- Contribute to the planning, implementation and evaluation of promotional activities
- Create a variety of permed effects
- Creatively Cut Hair Using a Combination of Techniques
- Creatively colour and lighten hair
- Creatively style and dress hair
and 8 more in the full unit list below.
One to one, not one to many
No two people run this the same way
A course is written once and handed to everyone. This is assembled around you, and keeps changing as it learns you. Five things it reads, and what each one changes.
- Your actual work Every unit is taught against a live piece of your own work, not a worked example from a textbook.
- What you already know The first conversation finds your starting point, so you skip what you can already do and spend the time on what you cannot.
- The conditions you learn under Not a learning-styles quiz. The evidence does not support those. The dimensions the research does back, read once and used to shape the plan.
- How far you got last time It picks up mid-thought. The tutor knows what you said, what you struggled with, and what it asked you to try.
- Which tutor suits the moment Twelve of them, each for a different kind of thinking. The one who walks you through a first idea is not the one who stress-tests it.
See how you learn, free. Eight questions, no sign-up. A directional taster; the diagnostic inside Zavmo goes deeper and keeps adapting.
Why it sticks
Most courses stop at remembering
There’s a well-known ladder of how deeply you learn something, called Bloom’s Taxonomy. Most courses get you up the first two rungs: you remember some facts, you pass a test, you forget it. Real skill lives at the top. Judging, deciding, creating. And this isn’t a generic ladder: every rung has a named Zavmo tutor who walks you up it.
- 6CreateThe Creative Catalyst
- 5EvaluateThe Evidence Evaluator
- 4AnalyseThe Analyst
- 3ApplyThe Coach
- 2UnderstandThe Connector
- 1RememberThe Builder
Where most courses leave you Where Zavmo takes you
The value
Why the companion is worth £70 a month
You’re not paying for the units. They’re regulated, and the same wherever you earn them. You’re paying for the one thing that decides whether you actually get there: a companion that makes them stick, on your real work.
That is one-to-one on this qualification, every day, on the work you already do, for £70 a month. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it. Billed monthly, cancel any time and billing stops.
Earned on your own work, taught to the top.
Everything you just read, learned one-to-one on the job you already do. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it.
Build my plan, freeNo card. See how this qualification maps onto your role and meet the tutors who’d teach it, free. The learning begins when you subscribe. It’s £70 a month, billed monthly. Cancel any time and billing stops.