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Course: Diploma of Beauty Therapy SIB50110

Prepare for success as a team leader or as owner-manager of your own beauty salon with the nationally recognised Diploma of Beauty SIB50110.

Custom-designed for distance education, this Open Colleges course will equip you with the job-specific skills you need to provide a comprehensive range of beauty services, as well as techniques for running a business and coordinating teams. In addition, it comes complete with more than $1800 worth of value-added extras to assist your skills and career development, including a beauty kit containing products from leading professional beauty brands such as Vani-T and Krush Minerals, plus a professional nail kit from Young Nails.

Flexibility is a cornerstone of this course. You can start anytime with one of our budget-friendly payment plans, choose to study online or by correspondence and progress at your own pace. You can even select your own work placement location or Open Colleges' assessment centre in Brisbane. Experienced trainers and the OpenSpace learning community are available to support you throughout your studies, giving you every chance of gaining your diploma. Successful completion will make you eligible for affiliate membership of the Advanced Association of Beauty Therapists.

Potential careers:
  • Beauty salon owner-manager
  • Beauty salon team leader
  • Senior beauty therapist
  • Beauty therapist
  • Mobile beauty therapist
  • Beautician

Included materials

  • Beauté Internationale beauty kit, including professional salon products from leading cosmetics companies such as Vani-T and Krush Minerals
  • Young Nails standard professional nail kit
  • Professional Beauty Therapy: Australian and New Zealand First Edition 2012 textbook
  • Waxing DVD

Valued at more than $1800!

Extras

  • 10% student discount on Young Nails products and Beauté Internationale products

Advanced Association of Beauty Therapists

Students who successfully complete their Diploma of Beauty Therapy SIB50110 will be entitled to affiliate membership of the Advanced Association of Beauty Therapists. Membership benefits include:

  • Business-related support and advice
  • Quarterly magazine The Australian Beauty Therapist
  • Opportunities to attend professional seminars and workshops.
NRT Vani-T
Beaute Young Nails
Krush Minerals
Course Number E0144
Course Fees From $145.83 per week View our payment options
Delivery mode: Print or online
Course duration: Max 30 months
Assessments: Written and verbal tasks, work placement activities and portfolio of work
Qualification: Diploma
Nationally Recognised Yes
Government Funding Yes
Career One jobs for:
Beauty Therapy & Make-Up 77

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SIRXCOM001A
  • Communicate in the workplace
    • Establish contact with customers
    • Process information
    • Communicate with customers and colleagues from diverse backgrounds
    • Work in a team
    • Read and interpret retail documents
SIRXOHS001A
SIBXCCS201A
  • Conduct financial transactions
    • Operate point-of-sale equipment
    • Perform point-of-sale transactions
    • Complete sales
    • Remove takings from register or terminal
    • Reconcile takings
SIRXMGT001A
  • Coordinate work teams
    • Monitor and organise staffing levels
    • Inform team
    • Motivate the team
    • Maintain staffing records
SIRXIND001A
SIBXCCS202A
  • Provide service to clients
    • Receive clients
    • Deliver customer service to clients
    • Schedule clients
    • Respond to client complaints
    • Identify clients' special customer service needs
SIBBNLS201A
  • Work in a nail services framework
    • Apply knowledge of nail science to beauty treatments
    • Apply knowledge of the structure and function of nails to nail treatments
    • Promote skin health and care
SIBBNLS202A
SIBBCCS403A
SIBBCCS301A
SIBBCCS405A
  • Develop treatment plans
    • Determine client requirements
    • Analyse client characteristics
    • Identify contraindications
    • Develop treatment plan
SIRXSLS004A
  • Build relationships with customers
    • Establish rapport with customers
    • Apply expert knowledge
    • Provide post-sales support
    • Plan sales presentations
    • Implement sales presentation
    • Maintain and utilise a customer database
    • Deal with difficult customers
SIBBCCS302A
SIBBCCS408A
SIBXFAS201A
  • Design and apply make-up
    • Prepare client
    • Cleanse face
    • Analyse face and design make-up plan
    • Select products and equipment
    • Apply make-up
    • Apply false eyelashes
    • Advise on further product use
SIBXFAS202A
SIBBFAS303A
HLTFA301B
  • Apply first aid

    Satisfied via the completion of a Senior First Aid certificate from an accredited provider, at student's own cost.
SIBBCCS404A
  • Work in a skin therapies framework
    • Apply knowledge of skin science to beauty therapy treatments
    • Apply knowledge of skin disorders to beauty therapy treatments
    • Promote skin health and care
BSBSUS201A
SIBBBOS401A
  • Perform body massage
    • Prepare for massage treatments
    • Manage massage treatments
    • Apply safe and effective methods of body massage
    • Review treatment and provide post-treatment advice
SIBBBOS402A
  • Provide body treatments
    • Prepare for body treatments
    • Manage body treatments
    • Provide body treatments
    • Review treatment and provide post-treatment advice
SIBBBOS506A
SIBBSPA505A
SIBBCCS406A
  • Use electricity in beauty therapy treatments
    • Apply knowledge of electricity to beauty therapy treatments
    • Perform beauty therapy treatments using direct and alternating current appliances
    • Perform beauty therapy treatments using electrical muscle stimulation and micro current equipment
    • Promote electrical safety
SIBBCCS407A
SIBBFAS404A
  • Provide facial treatments
    • Confirm treatment plan
    • Manage a facial massage service
    • Cleanse skin
    • Perform massage
    • Apply skin care products
    • Review treatment and provide post-treatment advice
SIBBFAS405A
SIBBFAS302A
  • Provide lash and brow treatments
    • Manage lash and brow treatments
    • Chemically treat eyelash and eyebrows
    • Shape eyebrows
    • Review treatment and provide post-treatment advice
SIBBHRS301A
  • Perform waxing treatments
    • Prepare for a waxing service
    • Perform waxing treatments
    • Review treatment and provide post-treatment advice
SIBBBOS505A
SIBBBOS504A
SIBBBOS403A
  • Perform aromatherapy massage
    • Prepare for aromatherapy massage treatments
    • Manage aromatherapy massage treatments
    • Perform safe and effective aromatherapy massage
    • Review treatment and provide post-treatment advice

Entry requirements

Minimum education

Open entry. Previous schooling and academic achievements are not required for entry into this course.

Minimum age

Minimum age of 16 years. If you are under 18 your application must be signed by a parent or guardian.

Computer requirements

Students will need access to a computer and the internet. For students who do not have access to either a computer or the internet please contact a student support officer to discuss alternative methods of communication.

Minimum specifications for the computer are:

  • Microsoft Office 2003 or equivalent, and
  • Microsoft Windows 98, or
  • Mac OS X, and
  • CD-ROM drive.

Students will also need access to a printer and the following applications:

  • Adobe Acrobat Reader and
  • Macromedia Flash player.

English language requirements

You should be able to read and write English at approximately Year 10 schooling level. If English is your second language and you did not complete the last two years of secondary education in English, you are required to provide evidence of English language competency before enrolling into the course. Examples of appropriate evidence are listed below:

Evidence

Example
IELTS Overall score of 5.5
TOEFL 530 (paper), 197 (computer) or 71 (internet)
12 months in English-speaking employment Testimonial, statutory declaration

Open Colleges will endeavour to provide additional assistance to students who experience difficulties with language, literacy and numeracy.

Workplace requirements

Students are required to complete a minimum of 120 hours in an appropriate setting and demonstrate their skills in the workplace according to the units of competency they are studying. Students may choose to be assessed in their own workplace or the Open Colleges assessment centre in Brisbane.

Please note, there is an additional administration fee over and above the course cost for students who choose to access the Open Colleges assessment centre. This will cover the assessment centre's costs in providing workplace operations and resources, along with the completion of administrative requirements necessary for the workplace assessment. You can find the Open Colleges Beauty Assessment Centre Fees in the Schedule of Administrative Fees published on our website at http://test2.opencolleges.edu.au.asp1-21.dfw1-1.websitetestlink.com/policies.aspx. Fees are payable via Student Support on 1300 650 011.

You will need to cover travel and accommodation costs to attend the Open Colleges assessment centre in Brisbane and take your nail and/or beauty kits and workplace assessment documentation with you to the Open Colleges assessment centre.

First Aid requirements

In order to complete this course, you will need to hold a current First Aid Certificate, issued by an accredited provider. Approximate cost to student: $170. For information on your nearest St John office, please phone 1300 360 455. For your nearest Red Cross office, please phone 1300 367 428.

Students who successfully complete the Diploma of Beauty Therapy SIB50110 may go on to further studies in this discipline.

Petrina Jones

Petrina Jones

Petrina has had a long and successful career in the beauty industry, starting out as a receptionist at a beauty product distributor before moving on to work at the Ella Bache counter at David Jones.

After that, she worked in a number of beauty salons and held several management and training roles before running her own salon for 11 years. Petrina continues in her own private beauty practice, and provides freelance bridal party beauty treatments for Ethix Beauty in NSW's Southern Highlands. Petrina has a fully mobile beauty service, with manicures, pedicures, facials, make-up, waxing and tinting being among the treatments she offers.

Since 2004, Petrina has been sharing her valuable knowledge with Open Colleges students as a trainer in our beauty and make-up courses. Most recently, Petrina has been acknowledged for her contribution to the latest 2012 Professional Beauty Therapy textbook.

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Government Funding

In some instances, students may be eligible for Austudy, Centrelink or other government-funded programs to help with study. Please check with Centrelink regarding eligibility, or contact a course and careers adviser on 1300 853 033.

Work Placement

Why is a Work Placement Required?

To help you become job ready, this course includes 120 hours of practical experience in a suitable workplace.

A work placement can be a highly stimulating and rewarding part of the course. It will provide opportunity for you to participate in a real workplace and put into practice the new skills and knowledge that you are learning in your course. Work placement will also give you an insight into particular job roles and responsibilities, so you can be certain this is the right industry for you and that you are right for this industry. In addition, undertaking a work placement helps to ensure the relevance of learning and assessment, and allows you to build useful networks of contacts. These networks can be highly advantageous when looking for work.

To ensure you gain the intended benefit from your work placement, it is important to undertake it in an organisation that is suitable for the course and under the direction of an appropriately experienced supervisor, who can help guide you. While you are expected to identify a suitable organisation for your work placement, Open Colleges can provide advice and direction. An Open Colleges assessor will then review the organisation to ensure it is able to provide the resources and supervision that you need. Once your chosen organisation is approved, the work placement can proceed.

Workplace assessments are conducted by Open Colleges' workplace assessors, who work with both the organisation and you to arrange mutually convenient times to undertake assessment activities.

Insurance

Open Colleges provides insurance cover for the mandatory work placement you undertake as part of your course. This insurance coverage includes Public and Products Liability Insurance as well as Student Personal Accident Insurance.

Open Colleges maintains Public and Products Liability Insurance which covers students undertaking work placements in the employer's workplace.

Known as Student Personal Accident Insurance, the policy covers 'Personal Accidents' in the workplace, and will help put employers' minds at ease for the duration of the work placement.

Copies of the Insurance Certificate of Currency can be requested from an Open Colleges student support officer on 1300 882 121.

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