Diploma Program - OJT | nashgroomingschool

Diploma Program - OJT

Program Overview

This program provides certifications tailored to your employees’ roles and skill levels, making it ideal for new recruits and experienced team members. Whether new to the field or working as a Bather, Groomer, or Stylist, this program equips your team with the knowledge and certifications to excel in their careers.

Key Benefits

Great Signing Incentive: Attract new hires and reward your current team with a diploma and continuing education opportunities to help them excel in their chosen profession.
Comprehensive Training: Employees gain foundational knowledge and advanced certifications through the Nash System.
International Scoring Standards: Developed by Vivian and John Nash in 1989, the Nash System evaluates and scores employees based on international benchmarks.

Training Components

Online Courses

Employees complete online theory courses paired with hands-on practical training. These courses cover foundational and advanced topics, providing consistent terminology and efficient communication across your team.

Foundation Courses

Employees start with six foundational courses essential for working with dogs:

Understanding Man’s Best Friend: History of the Canine
Taking Care of Man’s Best Friend: Disease, Disorders and Parasites
Form and Function of Man’s Best Friend: Canine Anatomy and Physiology Certification
3 Hearts First Aid & CPR: First Aid and CPR Dog, Cat, and Human Certification
Who’s Who in Man’s Best Friend: AKC Breeds, Function, and Groups
Variations and Creations of Man’s Best Friend: Different Eyes; Ears; Body; Feet; Tail; Toplines, and Underlines Types

Professional Series

Tailored for bathers, groomers, and stylists, it focuses on essential subjects such as salon products, tools, equipment, layout, and design. It also covers safety policies and procedures, such as placing the pet in the kennel and transporting it through the salon. It is essential to include this series for the team and prioritize its study to establish best practices in safety, sanitation, organization, and maintenance.

Courses focus on salon layout, tools, safety protocols, and essential grooming phases, including:

Phase 1: Prepping
Phase 2: Bathing
Phase 3: Drying
Phase 4: Brushing
Phase 5: Finishing

This series is the online grooming reference for you and your team to create efficient and accurate communication on important grooming terms and trim style names. We also offer posters and charts that use the same terminology for your team and clients to reference to confirm the right trim style for their pets! You can purchase these items on our Nash Collection Online Store.

Styling Courses

Detailed guidance on trims and styles for 20 coat types using the 10 Styling Components of the Nash System. Employees also have access to charts and posters for consistent communication with clients and staff.

Trim Style Certification

Employees earn certifications by completing 10 trim styles for their level:

Student Contest Show Division: Includes styles like Natural Tidy Trim, Body Contour Trim, and Poodle Head Trim.
Bather Groomer Levels: Long Flowing Trims, Silhouette Tidy Trims, and Silhouette Enhancement Trims.
Stylist Program: Modern, Continental, and unique trims like Bedlington and Lion styles.

Program Duration

Time Frame: 12 months, with progress reports every three months to keep employees on track.

Online Reference Manuals

Employees can access study materials through their online courses and complete assessments to test their understanding. This online study material is stored in the employee's personal reference library, ensuring consistency in training and terminology within your salon. This approach helps establish efficient and accurate communication among staff.

How to Register your Salon

Complete the Salon OJT Diploma Program Registration.
Nash handles the rest, ensuring your employees receive credit for experience and guidance through the certification process.

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10 Trim Styles Required for the Nash System OJT Diploma

The three certification levels require ten trim styles out of the twenty coat types, with the difficulty of trims being easier for Diploma students and increasing for more advanced employees. Your team can evaluate their skills and review the types of trims required in the three levels to make their decision.

Your team can continue their education by moving up in divisions after practicing and achieving a specialist level on the trim styles required in their division.

How to Find the Dogs for the Trim Styles

Finding dogs for the certifications for your team is easy because you can use pure and mixed breeds to create the trims. The certification is designed to show technical skills for the coat types and styling skills to create expressions and profiles.

For the competition certification division, we recommend securing the quality of dogs required for the level to train and be prepared for the world of contests.

Trim styles may vary slightly to achieve your goal and if you have a question about the trims, contact Nash.

Tuition Fees

Application Fee: $100.00

Tuition: $1440 Online Theory Classes

Tuition: $990 for the Ten Trim Style Test Out ($99.00 per trim style)

Total Application and Tuition Fee: $2430.00

Time to Complete

Time To Complete: 12 Months

Program Objective

Upon completing this program, your team will understand the Nash System of Bathing, Grooming, and Styling Dogs by the 20 Coat Types with 10 Styling Components.

Your team will study the online theory courses and learn all about the canine.

Study the dog's history, temperament, behavior, and the basic training methods used to train dogs.
Learn the dog's external anatomy, integumentary, skeletal, muscular, digestive, reproductive, urinary, respiratory, cardiovascular, nervous, and endocrine systems.
Learn about the body types, skull types, head types, feet types, tail types, coat types, and color types of the canine.
Study nutrition, disease, vaccinations, medical conditions, and inherited disorders in the canine.
Study external and external parasites found in dogs and cats.
Study and practice first aid and CPR for canines and felines.
Learn about the different breeds, how to recognize the various breeds, their country of origin, the original task for which they were bred, the approximate size and weight, and coat color of each breed, and the characteristics that are trademarks for particular breeds.
Study the basic salon design and layout, salon organization and sanitation, proper salon procedures, salon operations, and client relations.

Program Performance Objectives

You teach your team the following technical procedures using the Nash System to prepare your team for trim style by coat type certification.

Nail trimming, ear cleaning, teeth brushing, expressing anal glands, de-matting, bathing, drying, combing, brushing, carding, hand stripping, clipping, scissoring, and thinning.

You will teach your team the following styling procedures using the Nash System to prepare your team for trim style by coat type certifications.

How to create shapes, balance, and symmetry
How to set pattern lines and pattern blending.
Styling and finishing techniques for all coat types on mixed and purebred dogs.

You will teach your team the following salon procedures to establish and maintain safety, sanitation organization, and maintenance using the Nash System to prepare for salon safety certifications.

Safe and gentle handling of the pet during all technical procedures.
Salon organization and sanitation.
Proper salon policies and procedures.

Prerequisite

Nash requires a High School Diploma, GED, or Ability to Benefit from Training. All employees can benefit from the training in our OJT Diploma Program.