SHBBSPA005 - Work in a spa therapies framework
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Co-requisites
(Corequisite units must be studied concurrently with this unit)
Overview
This unit describes the performance outcomes, skills and knowledge required to promote spa treatments, and create and maintain a spa services environment.
It requires the ability to prepare spa work areas, recommend suitable spa therapies to clients, monitor the spa environment, complete shutdown of treatment rooms and equipment, and promote environmentally sound spa practices.
This unit applies to beauty and spa therapists who work in day, destination and resort spas. In this environment they work in a team but are responsible for individual client recommendations and for maintenance of the spa area.
The skills in this unit must be applied in accordance with Commonwealth and State or Territory legislation, Australian standards and industry codes of practice.
Assessment
For Melbourne campuses
Assessment tasks will be designed to reinforce & extend knowledge and skill competence within set & controlled parameters in accordance with each unit’s learning outcomes & performance criteria requirements, including the setting of work based practical application tasks designed to provide evidence of competence outcomes, within periodic and scheduled timelines.
Students will be expected to demonstrate the following required skills:
• integrate spa technical skills and work in a spa services environment for a minimum of six, three-hour work periods that individually or in combination, demonstrate:
-preparing, cleaning and shut down of:
-Vichy shower, or wet table, or spa capsule
-hot towel cabinets
-wet areas
• maintaining lighting, temperature, spa environment and spa etiquette to ensure spa ambience
• monitoring environmental impacts of a spa environment and identifying opportunities for reducing environmental impacts
• select, sequence, and promote a treatment to four different clients from the list below:
-wet treatments
-Vichy shower, or wet table, or spa capsule
• dry treatments:
-body exfoliation
-body wraps
-massage.
Students will be expected to demonstrate the following knowledge skills:
• integrate spa technical skills and work in a spa services environment for a minimum of six, three-hour work periods that individually or in combination, demonstrate:
• state or territory and local health and hygiene regulations and requirements relevant to providing spa treatments
organisational policies and procedures relevant to providing spa therapies:
-client record management
-equipment use and maintenance
-incident reporting
-linen use and laundry procedures
-personal hygiene and presentation
-presentation of treatment area
• sustainability and environmentally sound practices:
-energy efficiency
-waste minimisation and disposal
-recycling
-water efficiency
-work health and safety
-legal and insurance liabilities and responsibilities regarding spas and spa therapies
• definition of spa:
-healing through water
-philosophy of current spa movement
-spa history and development:
-origins of hydrotherapy
-overseas trends
-development of current spa movement
-cultural healing traditions
• theories and principles of spa therapies:
-Thalassotherapy
-Balneotherapy
-Kneipp therapy
-detailed knowledge of the features and benefits of wet and dry room therapies
• properties of water:
-heat capacity
-heat vaporisation and density
-pH scale
• characteristics of water:
-buoyancy
-turbulence
• chemical properties of water:
-spa behaviour of water under different conditions
-benefits of water in spa treatments
-chemicals appropriate to spa environment to maintain water hygiene
• water hygiene:
-infection and cross infection
-cross contamination
-methods of disinfection and sterilisation
-efficient and sustainable procedures for water supply
-definition of signature treatments
• management of adverse reactions to spa treatments:
-dizziness
-nausea
-skin irritation
-headache
• factors that contribute to spa ambience:
• lighting and colours:
-relaxation background music or sounds
-quiet areas and general noise management
-perfumed oils or candles
-decaffeinated and herbal refreshment
-cool drinks
-snack service.
Required reading
The qualified trainer and assessor will provide teaching and learning materials as required in the form of workbooks produced by Victoria University and/or via the Victoria University e-learning system.
As part of a course
This unit is studied as part of the following course(s):