IN-FSSA-Richmond Hospital: Barber/Beautician - nLeague

Description

Job Description

Job ID: 731270

Title: Barber/Beautician

Department: FSSA

Location: Richmond State Hospital, 498 NW 18th St, Richmond, IN 47374

Duration: 8 + Months

• Barber/beautician typically works 1-2 days/week.
• Beautician needed for grooming services.

The essential functions of this role are as follows:

• Perform all phases of grooming services such as shampoos, sets, haircuts and styling, manicures, shaves, facial hair removal, permanents, hair coloring, make-up techniques 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 behaviour.

Required skill:

• Must be a licensed beauty operator in the State of Indiana or have an Indiana State License for Barbers.
• CPR Certification.
• Prior experience working in a LTC or residential facility.