Build your craft in King’s Cross

What the day looks like

• Welcome walk-ins and find them a time when the rooms are full
• Take calls, card and cash payments, and issue gift vouchers
• Remember what a client asked for — including when they want the same therapist again — and make it happen when they book
• Keep an eye on the chats our assistant handles, and step in yourself when something needs a person

What we ask for

• No beauty qualification needed
• English good enough to talk with clients and to pick up a chat where it went wrong
• Comfortable with a booking system on screen
• The right to work in the UK

Also welcome

• A second language that matches our clients
• Experience of a busy service counter
• Enough of a feel for the menu to suggest a treatment

What the day looks like

• Wash, fold and keep the linen moving
• Turn a room around between clients
• Switch the sauna on 45 minutes ahead
• Keep the rooms stocked
• Clean and lay out tools on schedule
• Look after the pedicure row and the foot spas

What we ask for

• No beauty qualification needed
• Able to follow a hygiene routine to the letter
• The right to work in the UK

Also welcome

• An infection control certificate
• Experience in a spa or a hotel

What the day looks like

• Work the massage menu: Thai, deep tissue, Swedish, aromatherapy, hot stone, sports, foot and head
• Ask about aches and history before every treatment, every time
• Adjust pressure to what the client tells you, not to what the booking says
• Turn your own room around and change the linen

What we ask for

• A body massage qualification with anatomy and physiology among its units — we ask for the units, not only the certificate name
• At Level 3 for the treatments that need it
• Register as a therapist with Islington Council before starting — the council asks for your qualifications unit by unit, and allows at least 21 days
• The right to work in the UK

Also welcome

• Thai technique certified by a school
• Deep tissue or sports as separate units
• Pregnancy massage

What the day looks like

• Seven facials, 60 to 95 minutes
• Waxing across 19 options, including intimate waxing in a closed room
• Threading, brow and lash tinting, lash perming
• Five body treatments
• Write down for the client what was used on them

What we ask for

• A beauty therapy qualification covering facials and waxing, with the units to show for each
• Level 3 where the treatment calls for it, including intimate waxing
• Register as a therapist with Islington Council before starting — the council asks for your qualifications unit by unit, and allows at least 21 days
• The right to work in the UK

Also welcome

• Facial electrotherapy units — galvanic, faradic, microcurrent — because the menu includes a non-surgical face lift facial
• Intimate waxing as a separate unit

What the day looks like

• Manicures and pedicures, classic and spa, with polish or UV gel
• Acrylic and fibre gel extensions, infills and removals
• Keep tools and the pedicure row clean between clients

What we ask for

• Manicure and pedicure qualifications
• A separate nail extensions qualification at Level 3
• Register as a therapist with Islington Council before starting — the council asks for your qualifications unit by unit, and allows at least 21 days
• The right to work in the UK

Also welcome

• Both acrylic and fibre gel
• An eye for finish that holds up in a photograph

What the day looks like

• Classic, hybrid and Russian volume extensions, around an hour
• Infills at 30 to 45 minutes, removals at 20
• Lash lifting and tinting
• Patch test and consultation before any first set

What we ask for

• An eyelash extensions qualification at Level 3, with the units to show
• Register as a therapist with Islington Council before starting — the council asks for your qualifications unit by unit, and allows at least 21 days
• The right to work in the UK

Also welcome

• Russian volume as a unit of its own, separate from classic
• Lash lifting

What the day looks like

• Cutting, colour, highlights and balayage
• Keratin and Japanese straightening
• Blow dry and styling
• Hair spa treatments
• Bookings run from 30 minutes to six hours

What we ask for

• A hairdressing qualification
• The right to work in the UK

Also welcome

• Japanese straightening and keratin, the longest and most exacting work on the menu
• The Asian cutting technique the shop is known for

What the day looks like

• Build the rota and keep it staffed
• Keep the menu and prices right on Treatwell
• Order stock and keep count
• Hold the staff file: right to work, qualifications, council registrations
• Track when the premises licence comes up for renewal

What we ask for

• No beauty qualification needed
• Orderly with paperwork, because this role is the paperwork
• The right to work in the UK

Also welcome

• Salon or clinic administration
• A feel for compliance records

What the day looks like

• HIFU across face and body
• No-needle mesotherapy
• Microblading and semi-permanent make-up
• Laser tattoo removal
• Consultation and patch test before every first appointment

What we ask for

• A qualification for each treatment you would perform, at the level the council sets for it — higher here than elsewhere on this list
• Core of knowledge for laser work
• Register as a therapist with Islington Council before starting — the council asks for your qualifications unit by unit, and allows at least 21 days
• The right to work in the UK

Also welcome

• Your own professional indemnity insurance
• Work you can show and we can check

What the day looks like

• Open and close
• Keep quality honest on the floor
• Assess new therapists before they take on the Taitam-D Signature
• Decide when a client should see a doctor instead

What we ask for

• Your own treatment qualification, at Level 3
• Experience leading a team
• Register as a therapist with Islington Council before starting — the council asks for your qualifications unit by unit, and allows at least 21 days
• The right to work in the UK

Also welcome

• An assessor qualification