Beauty & Fitness

This qualification reflects the role of individuals employed as beauticians to
provide a range of beauty services including nail, waxing, lash and brow, and basic
make-up services.
These individuals possess a range of well-developed technical and customer service
skills where discretion and judgement is required and are responsible for their own
outputs. This includes client consultation on beauty products and services.
Work is typically conducted in beauty, waxing, brow and nail salons.

This qualification reflects the role of individuals who work as beauty therapists
to provide a range of beauty therapy treatments and services, including lash and
brow treatments, nail services, make-up, massage and waxing. They communicate with
clients to recommend treatments and services and sell retail skin care and cosmetic
products.

These individuals undertake work independently, with limited guidance from others,
to perform routine and non-routine activities and solve non-routine problems. They
apply and adapt technical skills and knowledge, and use judgment in the provision of
beauty treatments and services. These individuals are responsible for their own
outputs and provide limited guidance to others.

Work is typically conducted in beauty salons and spas.

This qualification reflects the role of skilled senior hairdressers who use a
range of highly developed sales, consultation and technical skills and knowledge to
provide a broad range of hairdressing services to clients. These senior hairdressers
provide specialist services in one or more areas including haircutting, design,
colouring and complex colour correction, trichology and chemical reformation. They
work independently and many hairdressers at this level provide technical leadership,
training and support to team members

This qualification reflects the role of individuals employed as beauty therapists
to provide a broad range of beauty therapy treatments and services including facial
treatments, body massage and treatments, hair removal, lash and brow treatments,
nail and make-up services. This includes consultation with clients to provide beauty
advice, recommend beauty treatments and services, and sell retail skin-care and
cosmetic products.

These individuals work relatively autonomously, and are accountable for personal
outputs. Their work involves the self-directed application of knowledge and skills
with substantial depth in some areas where judgement is required in planning and
selecting appropriate equipment, services and techniques.

Work is typically conducted in beauty salons and spas.

This qualification reflects the role of instructors who perform a range of
activities and functions within the fitness industry. Depending on the
specialisation chosen, this qualification provides a pathway to work as an
instructor providing exercise instruction for group, aqua or gym programs.

They work independently with some level of autonomy in a controlled environment
such as fitness, leisure, aquatic and community centres where risks are managed
through pre-existing risk assessment and hazard control processes.

Individuals who specialise in Aqua Exercise Instruction deliver water-based
exercise sessions designed for participation by a group of clients. Sessions may be
freestyle, pre-choreographed or circuit style. They also have the skills to rescue a
client in distress, and an appropriate level of pool deck fitness and endurance.

Individuals who specialise in Group Exercise Instruction deliver exercise sessions
designed for participation by a group of clients with a mix of ages/fitness levels.
Sessions may be freestyle, pre-choreographed or circuit style. These individuals
instruct and demonstrate complete exercise sessions to groups with limited
individual interaction.

Individuals who specialise in Gym Instruction provide individually tailored client
assessments, provide technique correction as needed, and develop and demonstrate
programs. They also provide supervision of a facility or service, keep equipment
clean, tidy and well maintained, and handle various customer inquiries.

This qualification reflects the role of personal trainers who have specialist
skills to train individual clients, or groups of clients, on a one-on-one or group
basis, to improve health-related components of fitness in relatively low risk
situations. This may include training of older clients and children.

They have a substantial depth of knowledge to plan, conduct and evaluate exercise
training; provide leadership and guidance to clients and other staff; and deal with
unpredictable situations applying defined guidelines and procedures from the fitness
industry and the organisation.
They work independently or with limited guidance from others and use discretion to
solve non-routine problems, including monitoring and managing business activities to
operate efficiently and profitably.
The qualification does not provide the skills and knowledge for an individual to
provide advice or exercise instruction to high risk clients, other than to refer the
client to an appropriate medical or allied health professional.