Full-Time Senior Hair Stylist
The role
We’re looking for an experienced stylist to join the team full-time. You’d be picking up overflow demand from a salon that’s been consistently fully booked — no client-list-building, no quiet patches to ride out. From your first day you’d have a steady column.
Day-to-day, you’d be cutting and colouring across the full range — classic cuts and restyles, balayage, highlights, full colour, treatments. We’re not a niche-only salon: variety keeps the work interesting and your skills sharp.
You’d be working alongside a small senior team, with the salon owner on the floor most days. No regional manager, no corporate management chain. Decisions get made by people who actually work in the salon.
Who we’re looking for
- Strong technical skill. Confident across cutting and colour. We’re not going to teach you the basics — we’re looking for someone who can walk in and pick up where the existing team leaves off.
- Good with people. Technical skill is the baseline. What sets the best stylists apart is how they handle the people in their chair — communication, care, consistency. We value this above everything.
- Reliable and self-directed. No one is going to micromanage you. We expect you to turn up, do good work, and manage your own column responsibly.
- Tired of salon politics. We’ve deliberately built a culture without the nonsense. If you’re coming from somewhere that has it, you’ll appreciate the contrast.
What you’ll get
- £16–£18 per hour. Depending on experience and how much you bring to the team.
- Sundays and Mondays off. The salon is closed both days, across the board. No rota juggling, no working weekends.
- A full column from day one. We turn clients away weekly. You won’t be building a client base from scratch.
- Joico throughout the salon. Professional-grade colour and care. Products you can use and recommend with confidence.
- Real ongoing training. Specific courses across the year — colour, hair systems, extensions, smoothing. Not “training opportunities” as a benefits-page bullet.
- A reputation that works for you. 4.8 stars across hundreds of Google reviews. The brand brings the clients; you build on it.
What happens when you message.
No application black hole, no ghosting. Here's the actual process, start to finish.
WhatsApp, email or pop in. You'll hear back the same day — usually within the hour.
A call or a coffee with Mike — what you're looking for, what we need, whether it fits.
Come and see the salon. For some roles we'll arrange a trade test — but if your work already speaks for itself, we won't make you jump through hoops.
Days, not weeks — whichever way it goes, you'll hear from us. Nobody's left hanging.
Who you'd work beside.
Rose from apprentice to Team Leader at Popham, one of Oxfordshire's leading salons. Our colour expert, especially highlights and blondes — down to earth and easy to talk to.
Precision scissor cutting is where her perfectionism shows — ladies' and longer men's styles, curly cuts, and cuts that make fine or thinning hair look fuller. Also bespoke colour, hair systems and extensions.
35+ years and our creative specialist — bold restyles, vivid colour, perms, and confident ladies' and gents' cutting.
Curly cuts and longer styles, with people skills well beyond her years. Her highlights and balayage are genuinely standout too.
I opened Wisteria Avenue in 2018 because I believed a salon could be run differently — busy enough to keep your column full, small enough that nobody gets lost in politics. Seven years, two floors and 700+ five-star reviews later, that's still the whole idea.
If you're thinking about applying, here's my promise: it's me you'll be speaking with, from first hello to final answer. If it's not the right fit, I'll tell you kindly and quickly. If it is, you'll know within days.
Mike · Owner, Wisteria Avenue
Whichever role — the deal is the same.
Full details on the careers page →The same two days off every week — no rota juggling.
We turn clients away weekly — you pick up overflow.
No chair rental. Full or part-time — days that suit.
Clients name their stylist in our reviews, weekly.
Join the good one.
No forms, no cover letters, no waiting weeks. Pick whichever route suits you — we reply the same day.
