Qualification details
Title
New Zealand Diploma in Beauty Therapy (Level 5)
Version
1
Qualification type
Diploma
Level
5
Credits
120
NZSCED
110301
Food, Hospitality and Personal Services > Personal Services >
Beauty Therapy
Qualification developer
NZ Hair and Beauty ITO (Inc)
Next review
[Three years from listing]
Approval date
Dd Mmmm YYYY
Strategic purpose statement
The purpose of this qualification is to provide the beauty sector
with therapists who have the skills and knowledge to critically
analyse clients’ needs and provide advanced beauty services.
Learners will benefit by having a qualification which recognises
beauty therapist skills and knowledge to enable improved job
performance and a credential to enhance employment
opportunities.
The beauty sector and its clients will benefit by having beauty
therapists with the skills and knowledge to successfully provide
advanced beauty services.
This qualification requires learners to have prior learning or
experience as a beauty therapist. It enables learners to attain a
recognised level of competence and professional standards.
Graduates will be capable of working autonomously as a beauty
therapist.
Outcome Statement
Graduate profile
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Graduates will be able to:

Implement all health, safety and hygiene legislation and
regulations, and professional standards and expectations
relating to advanced beauty services.

Undertake an in-depth consultation and build rapport with
clients to analyse and evaluate their needs, and develop and
manage a treatment plan for advanced beauty services.

Apply underpinning skills and knowledge to provide
advanced beauty services to industry standards and within
set timeframes.

Manage small business practice relevant to the beauty
sector.

Apply knowledge of reciprocal referral pathways between
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beauty, health and medical practitioners to provide advice
and management of diseases and disorder conditions of the
skin and body.

Education pathway
This qualification builds on the New Zealand Certificate in Beauty
Therapy (Level 4), which is the prerequisite for this qualification,
and may lead to the:

New Zealand Certificate in Spa Therapy (Level 5)

New Zealand Certificate in Specialised Epilation Therapy
(Level 6)

New Zealand Certificate in Specialised Skin Care Therapy
(Level 6)

Employment pathway
Provide specialised nutritional advice which is
complementary to advanced beauty services.
Business qualification or further study.
Graduates of this qualification may be employed, contracted or
self-employed, in positions such as:

Beauty therapist

Salon manager

Product company representative

Brand manager

Account manager

Salon owner

Educator/Trainer.
Qualification specifications
Qualification award
This qualification may be awarded by the organisation with
whom the trainee is enrolled. This may be an accredited
training provider with an approved programme leading to
award of the qualification, or the industry training
organisation (HITO) that has arranged training leading to
award of this qualification.
The formal document certifying the award of this qualification
bears the New Zealand Qualifications Framework logo. It will
also include the name and/or logo of the awarding body.
Evidence requirements for assuring
consistency
All TEOs either arranging training or delivering programmes
that lead to the award of the qualification are required to
participate in a consistency process scheduled by NZQA.
This will involve reviewing evidence associated with
graduate’s achievement of outcomes, establishing a periodic
cycle for a review focus for the external consistency review,
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and agreeing acceptable standards and/or benchmarks for
qualification outcome achievement, and areas for
improvement.
To demonstrate how graduates are achieving the
qualification graduate profile outcomes, TEOs are required
to produce their own evidence in high level reports.
Evidence will include the following:

Employer surveys to determine if graduates of the
qualification are achieving graduate profile
outcomes.

A range of workplace evidence demonstrating that
graduates meet the graduate profile outcomes.

A portfolio of assessment evidence from graduates
over a variety of services and clients, e.g.
photographs, client cards.

Any other relevant evidence as appropriate.
The purpose of the managing consistency event is to:

review evidence associated with achievement of
qualification outcomes at the level of the
qualification.

identify issues or opportunities associated with
outcome achievement.
Further information can be found on the NZQA website.
Minimum standard of achievement
and standards for grade
endorsements
The minimum standard of achievement required for the
award of the qualification will be the achievement of all the
graduate outcomes in the graduate profile.
There are no grade endorsements for this qualification.
Entry requirements (including
prerequisites to meet regulatory body
or legislative requirements)
The New Zealand Certificate in Beauty Therapy (Level 4), or
equivalent, is the prerequisite for this qualification.
General conditions for the programme leading to the qualification
General conditions for
programme
Programmes must include sufficient practicum time to allow practice
of skills to take place within a realistic workplace environment.
Where programmes do not include the optional unit standards set out
below as specific conditions relating to the graduate profile,
programme developers should consider the listed unit standards as a
guide to the minimum requirements for programme content.
The delivery and assessment of the Graduate Profile Outcomes
should be integrated throughout the programme.
Specific conditions relating to the Graduate profile
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Qualification outcomes
Conditions
1
Programmes must include:
Implement all health, safety
and hygiene legislation and
regulations, and professional
standards and expectations
relating to advanced beauty
services.
-
safe use and operation of specialised tools, products, and
equipment
-
gender and cultural safety in a beauty workplace
-
first aid.
15 credits
2
Undertake an in-depth
consultation and build rapport
with clients to analyse and
evaluate their needs, and
develop and manage a
treatment plan for advanced
beauty services.
10 credits
3
Apply underpinning skills and
knowledge to provide
advanced beauty services to
industry standards and within
set timeframes.
70 credits
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Programmes must include:
-
establish client expectations
-
analysis that is fit for purpose for specific services
-
knowledge of medical history.
Programmes may include:
-
Unit standard 19595, Perform skin analysis as an
independent beauty services operator (L5, C4)
Programmes must include:
-
all electrical therapy machines including vacuum, G5,
Viennese massage (Indirect High Frequency), Galvanic,
Faradic, sonopheresis, and relevant new or emerging
technologies
-
electrical body therapy including electrical current through
the system, electrical current on the body
-
electrical facial therapy including high frequency,
Galvanic, microdermabrasion, micro-current
-
full body massage including adapting routine to meet
client needs and a range of movements for each of the
Swedish massage classifications
-
body exfoliation including dry, mediums (gel and cream)
with various activities such as physical and chemical
-
body wraps including clay, cream and warm and cool gel
application.
-
hair removal electrolysis services, including highfrequency, Galvanic, and blend
-
advanced skin care services
-
advice and product information to maintain the benefit of
the advanced beauty treatment
-
relevant human body systems, organs and general
functions for advanced beauty therapy services
-
cosmetic chemistry and physics for beauty services and
products
-
current trends and applied research.
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Programmes may include:
-
4
Manage small business
practice relevant to the beauty
sector.
10 credits
5
Apply knowledge of reciprocal
referral pathways between
beauty and health
practitioners to provide advice
and management of diseases
and disorder conditions of the
skin and body.
Programmes must include:
-
business plans
-
sustainability requirements and procedures relating to
advanced beauty services.
Programmes must include:
-
advanced knowledge of skin conditions
-
conditions relevant to body therapy/massage
-
contraindications and indications to advanced services
-
systemic, genetic and topical causes of normal and
abnormal hair growth.
5 credits
6
Provide specialised nutritional
advice which is
complementary to advanced
beauty services.
10 credits
Unit standard 522, Explain the human integumentary
system for beauty services (L5, C3).
Programmes must include:
-
advice on nutritional support for skin, hair, and nails
-
role of vitamins, minerals and EFAs
-
key foods to recommend for improvement of specific skin
conditions
-
supplement recommendations.
Programmes may include:
-
Unit standard 10392, Explain nutrition principles for
beauty services (L4, C4)
Transition information
Replacement information
This qualification replaced the National Certificate in Beauty Services
(Electrology) [Ref: 1048] and the National Certificate in Beauty Services
(Body Therapy) [Ref: 1049].
The last date for entry into programmes leading to replaced qualifications is 31 December 2016 when the
replaced qualifications will be designated expiring.
The last date to meet the requirements of the replaced qualifications is 31 December 2018 when the
qualifications will be discontinued. From that date no results can be reported against the replaced
qualifications.
People currently working towards any of the replaced qualifications must complete its requirements by 31
December 2018 or transfer their results to the replacement qualification.
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