Clinic Day at The National School of Aesthetics Helps Ākonga / Students to Practice a Variety of Treatments on a Variety of People
As a trainee beauty therapist or trainee nail technician, you will be expected to work with clients and models during your programme, whether this is through clinic day, classes where you practice on outside models, or assessments where you work on outside models.
You are required to fully participate in clinic days and perform treatments on models in classes and assessments when required.
A model in this context is an ordinary person who you perform a treatment or treatments on.
You will be expected to remain professional at all times.
If you are wanting more information on our clinic, Absolute Aesthetics, please visit our clinic page.
Quick Links about Working with Clients and Models
Clinic Day
Once up to standard, ākonga / students work in the clinic area. The clinic operates similarly to a professional clinic, giving you experience in a clinic-like setting while under tutor supervision.
When we feel most of your class are up-to-speed with treatments, we start holding clinic days. We hold these usually once a week for each class. The money we receive from the heavily discounted treatments goes primarily into the products you use while studying with us.
One ākonga / student will work on reception to greet clients and help them sign in, prepare paperwork for treatment, answer telephone enquiries, take payments, rebook clients, and other reception tasks.
Some weeks, client day may be busy, with us requiring you to work on more than one client in a day. Other times, client days may be slow, and we will find other things for you to do. As this is a practical class, we will expect you to perform practical treatments usually.
Practicing on Models
Models for Ākonga / Students in the New Zealand Certificate and Diploma in Beauty Therapy Programme
If you are an ākonga / student in the New Zealand Certificate and Diploma in Beauty Therapy programme, you will be expected to find electrology models and practice on them free-of-charge to help build up your competence and confidence in your electrology skills.
Models for Ākonga / Students in the New Zealand Certificate in Nail Technology Programme
If you are an ākonga / students in the New Zealand Certificate in Nail Technology programme, you will be expected to find models and practice on them free-of-charge on certain days in your programme. Your tutor will inform you of these days.
Models for Assessments
You may be required to find a model for your assessments. Your tutor will inform you when you need a model for your assessment.
Parking for Clients and Models
The carparks available in our carpark are limited. We pay our landlord for each carpark space in our carpark (they are not free to us).
Paying clients – those are clients who are attending clinic day – can park in our carpark as they are paying a fee for a treatment.
Models for classes and assessments, and models who are not paying, need to park in carparks available on our street and the surrounding areas. It is your responsibility to let your model know they need to park on the street. If the model is parked in our carpark and the space is needed for a paying client, we may pull your model out of assessment or class to move their car.
Paying clients (clinic day) can park in our carpark.
Non-paying models cannot park in our carpark.
It’s your responsibility to let them know this.