Shampoo Assistant

Summary
A shampoo assistant is responsible for various tasks in a salon, primarily focused on washing, conditioning, and preparing clients for hair services. Performing additional tasks as needed, such as laundry, restocking supplies, and assisting with reception duties.

Essential Functions

• Washing and Conditioning Hair: The primary duty involves thoroughly washing clients' hair with shampoo and applying conditioner as needed. This includes rinsing out products effectively to ensure hair is clean and ready for styling.
• Scalp Massaging: Providing a relaxing scalp massage during the shampooing process to enhance the client experience and promote relaxation.
• Preparing the Shampoo Area: Setting up the shampooing area by ensuring all necessary products and tools are readily available and organized.
• Assisting Stylists: Supporting hairstylists by preparing clients for their services, which may include rinsing out color treatments or blow-drying hair after washing.
• Client Interaction: Greeting clients warmly, addressing their needs, and ensuring they feel comfortable during their visit. Building rapport is essential for client retention.
• Maintaining Cleanliness: Keeping the salon area clean and organized, including washing towels, cleaning shampoo bowls, and ensuring all equipment is sanitized.
• Product Knowledge: Being knowledgeable about various hair care products and treatments to assist clients with recommendations and to apply specialty shampoos for specific scalp issues, such as dandruff.

Competencies
Customer Service Skills: Ability to interact positively with clients and provide excellent service.
Attention to Detail: Ensuring that all tasks are performed thoroughly and correctly.
Physical Stamina: The role often requires standing for long periods and performing repetitive motions.
Supervisory Responsibility
This position has no supervisory responsibilities.
Work Environment
This job operates in a professional salon environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines.

Physical Demands
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and hear. This position is very active and requires standing, walking, bending, kneeling, stooping, crouching, crawling, and climbing all day. The employee must frequently lift and/or move items over 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.
Position Type and Expected Hours of Work
This is a part-time position and hours will vary

Travel
No travel is expected for this position.
Required Education and Experience
1. High school diploma or GED certificate.
2. Strong written and oral communication skills.
Preferred Education and Experience
One to five years of salon experience
Cosmetology license
Other Duties
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities,
duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
Pay Range: $14.00-$16.00 hourly