Barber/Beautician

Job Position : Barber/Beautician

Location : Richmond, IN

Pay per service agreement:

Pay rate to contractor

• $20 Shampoo, haircut, and style
• $10 Beard trim
• $30 combo
• $15 per hour of training- including 4-day new orientation and ongoing required trainings.

The essential functions of this role are as follows:

• Perform all phases of grooming services such as shampoos, sets, haircuts and styling, shaves, facial hair removal, permanents, hair coloring, and scalp treatments according to physicians’ orders and mix a variety of hair treatment solutions.
• Ensure barber/beauty shop and equipment meet all applicable health, sanitation and safety regulations and standards by maintaining orderliness and cleanliness, laundering towels and sterilizing combs, brushes, and tools.
• Estimate and order new and replacement equipment and supplies.
• Maintain a variety of simple records such as appointment books, work reports, and inventory records.
• Provide grooming services to immobile patients.
• Escort patients to and from wards and restrooms.
• The job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee. Other duties, responsibilities and activities may change or be assigned at any time with or without notice.

You must meet the following requirement to be considered for employment:

• Must be a licensed beauty operator in the State of Indiana or have an Indiana State License for barbers.
• Knowledge of the rules and regulations of sanitary health laws and cosmetology.
• Knowledge of the operation and maintenance of beauty/barber shop equipment.
• Knowledge of, and skill in, the modern methods of hair, facial, scalp care and barbering practices.
• Ability to work tactfully with, and control patients with a variety of mental, physical and emotional problems.

As a Beautician, you will stand for long periods of time requiring frequent bending, lifting, reaching and arm strain in the performance of duties and the positioning and restraint of clients. You must possess manual dexterity sufficient to groom and style hair. Your work is usually performed in a clean, well-lit beauty shop or hospital room where substandard lighting ventilation and cooling are sometimes present. You are occasionally exposed to hair sprays, fumes from permanents, peroxide and dye solutions. Minor hazards are present during use of cutting tools near sometimes unpredictable mental patients or inmates.

The Beautician provides a wide variety of services in the overall grooming care of individual patients. This position works independently following general instructions and standard procedures of profession and is the final authority on the quality of grooming services. You will also notify doctors or nurses when scalp irritations occur. Care must be exercised when providing services due to the unpre patient or inmate behavior.

Personal Work Relationships:

• This individual will be expected to partner with agency personnel and related stakeholders working towards completion of assigned functions. Exceptional customer service is provided to agency partners and/or the general public. A high level of judgement and effective communication is required during times of contact with residents or incarcerated individuals.

Physical Effort:

• Depending on the duties performed or environment setting, frequent walking, standing, climbing stairs or ladders, bending, stooping, pushing, pulling and/or similar movements may be involved.
• This role may experience long periods of repetitive movements requiring stamina.