Beauty in all its Forms – Hairdressing Assistant Programme

Our 4th cycle of Beauty in all its Forms Hairdressing Assistant Training & Programme in partnership with Alafaparf Milano is in the calendar to kick of in January 2019. Aoife Gaffney, National Employment & Projects Officer attended a meeting with Alfaparf Milano this week & they have 6 salons ready to take part in the programme.

We are looking for interested participants in the following locations to please submit an application form to Aoife Gaffney by email aoife@downsyndrome.ie or by post (address below).

Deadline for entries no later than Thursday the 3rd January 2019.

• Galway
• Bray
• Letterkenny
• Kinnegad
• Mountmellick
• Abbeyleix

Aoife will then be in contact in the New Year regarding an Open Day on Wednesday the 16th January in DSI National Office & candidate selection which will take place following that.

Training will take place from Wednesday 23rd January to 27th March in the Alfaparf Milano Training Academy in Kilmainham, Dublin and work placement will take place from the 10th April for 6 weeks in a local salon in each of the locations above.  Two days pre-employment training will take place the week of the 21st & 28th January (days TBC) in the DSI National Office in Dublin.

Please note you must be available for ALL the dates above, you must be able to travel to Dublin for training and you must be in close proximity to the salon location above also.

Here is more information about Beauty in all its Forms

And this is the application form for the event.

By post: 

Down Syndrome Ireland, Unit 3 Parkway House, Western Parkway Business
Park, Ballymount Drive, Dublin 12, D12 HP70 (FAO Aoife Wemyss)