Full-Time/Part-Time Junior Hair Stylist
The role
Newly or recently qualified and ready to actually develop on the salon floor. This is the role for someone who’s done the qualification, has some confidence, and now wants the next 12–18 months in a busy environment with senior stylists they can genuinely learn from.
You’d start with a smaller column of your own clients, supported with floor work alongside the senior team. As you build confidence and demonstrate skill, your own column grows. There’s no artificial promotion gate — pace of progression is driven by you and the work.
The volume of clients matters here. You’d be cutting and colouring constantly. The fastest way to get good is to do a lot, with people watching who can show you how to do it better.
Who we’re looking for
- Qualified or close to qualified. Level 2 or working toward Level 3 NVQ in Hairdressing — or equivalent. You’ve done the foundation; we’ll handle the rest.
- Hungry to develop. Not looking for somewhere to coast. The clients are real, the feedback is real, and getting good takes work.
- Good with people. Salon-floor confidence with clients matters as much as technical skill — sometimes more.
- Open to being taught. If you can take direction without taking it personally, you’ll thrive here. If you can’t, you won’t.
What you’ll get
- Up to £12 per hour. Depending on experience and current skill level.
- Real mentoring, not corporate-speak. Senior stylists who’ll actively help you improve — show you, explain why, correct your work where needed. The mentoring here is hands-on.
- Constant volume. You’ll be cutting and colouring every day you’re in. The volume is the development.
- Sundays and Mondays off. The salon is closed both days, across the board.
- Training calendar. Specific courses across the year — colour, hair systems, extensions, smoothing — that you can access from year one.
- A clear path forward. Senior Stylist progression is based on skill demonstration, not time-served. Move at your pace.
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.
