Katie Thomas

Technical stylist
TONI&GUY-East Sheen
June 2023 to Present
I manage my own column with regular clients that I have built up since joining and also many walk in clients as well as requests. I have also had the opportunity to take on further development training at the Toni and guy academy and am about to start my vardering . I also help with the day to day running of the salon including general cleaning of the salon, reception duties, stock check, placing orders, greeting and assisting clients, assisting senior stylists with clients and services, cut colouring and balayage/foilyage services and blow drying and treatment services with my own clients and walk in clients. I have also had the opportunity to assist on shoots with some of the art team.

Where I have gained skills im how to work in a high pressure situation whilst under pressure and also following a brief as well as adding my own creative input.

Director
RUSH Hair and Beauty-Ealing
September 2022 to June 2023
I have been running my own column with regular clients that I have built up since joining and also many walk in clients as well as requests. I have also had the opportunity to take on further development training at the rush academy in Covent Garden. I Help with the day to day running of the salon including general cleaning of the salon, reception duties, stock check, greeting and assisting clients, assisting senior stylists with clients and services, cut colouring and balayage/foilyage services and blow drying and treatment services with my own clients and walk in clients.

Stylist
Liaison Hair and beauty-Mill Hill
February 2022 to September 2022
Help with the day to day running of the salon including general cleaning of the salon, reception duties, stock check, greeting and assisting clients, cashing up, assisting senior stylists with clients and services, cutting colouring and blow drying and treatment services with my own clients and walk in clients, attend model nights where we have clients in for specific services to help build portfolio and skill set.

Lead Youth Worker
Stonegrove Estates Youth Project-Edgware
July 2017 to August 2020
Responsibilities
* staffing costs and budgets.
* source apply and write funding bids to ensure we can maintain the running of the club and be able to offer those that attend the best opportunities we can give them.
* devise a suitable and age appropriate programme for the youth club.
* ensure all staff are properly trained and competent in what they are doing and to ensure they have the best possible training to better themselves and their work.
* staff reviews every 3 months
* network and communicate with other services, company's and charities that could be beneficial to the youth project or its members.
* to over see the running of the project
* deal with any issues that may arise during and out of the youth projects running hours.
* to organise and facilitate advisory board meetings for the youth project.
* deal with any concerns parents may have in regards to the youth project or its staff.
* Plan, set up and run sessions for children 5-11 years and 11-17 year olds
* Plan, set up and run fashion Design course for 8-17 year olds (I have put the whole course together)
* Open up and close down the youth club
* Heading youth forum Meetings for our Youth Council
* run sessions for children aged 5-17
* General office and admin duties i.e. session plans and reports, devising different templates to use at the club i.e. time sheets session plans
* plan, organise and facilitate off-site outings with children 8-17 years

Head Makeup Artist & Hair Stylist
Cherish Lillis-Watford
May 2019 to May 2019
I was the head makeup artist and hair stylist on music video and photo shoot for an up and coming band called 'Lakes', i also had an assistant makeup artist with me to help assist on the shoot. The video is being used by their publicist team and the photos will be used for band promotion as well as the video and photos being avaliable on the bands website ourbandlakes.bandcamp.com and their YouTube Chanel as well as other social media outlets.

Make up competition
West Herts College-Watford
April 2019 to April 2019
i came 3rd in a Drag queen/villain make up competition that was judged by a professional celebrity makeup artist, the head makeup artist of Warpaint and other judges. We was given a brief to create a drag queen or villain so i decided to combine both and do lord Voldemort as a drag queen. i have pictures from the
competition in my portfolio and pictures where also published in Warpaint online.

Make up Artist / Hair Stylist
West Herts College-Watford
February 2019 to February 2019
Head Makeup artist for the Wella hair competition at west Herts college. Assisting the hair stylists to
complete their finished design looks for the competition. Photos available.

Makeup Artist & Hair Stylist
HH Theatre Co-Hemel Hempstead
December 2018 to December 2018
At the HH Theatre Co i voluntary helped backstage getting the actors ready for their last Christmas
pantomime performance. i firstly shadowed their head makeup artist as they got the Dame ready to see
how they woprked in a fast passed environment. i then got fully involved and curled and dressed the
main characters hair ready for her performance and also helped with other characters hair. i then had
to apply Cartoon style eyebrows to one performer and i then had to keep making these eyebrows more
bigger and bolder each time he came off.

Makeup Artist
Cherish Lillis-Watford
November 2018 to November 2018
Makeup artist for a beauty shoot for a photographer at West Herts college. The over all makeup look was
left to my own creation was given a very short brief before hand.

Community Youth Worker
Stonegrove Estates' Youth Project, St Peters Community Hall-Edgware
July 2012 to June 2016
Responsibilities
• Plan, set up and run sessions for children 5-11 years and 11-17 year olds
• Plan, set up and run fashion Design course for 8-17 year olds (I have put the whole course together)
• Open up and close down the youth club
• Heading youth forum Meetings for our Youth Council
• Assisting in sessions with children aged 5-17
• Assisting the football team and manager at power league, training sessions
• General office and admin duties i.e. session plans and reports, devising different templates to use at
the club i.e. time sheets session plans
• Off-site outings with children 8-17 years

Customer Sales Advisor
Argos, Charter Place-Watford
November 2013 to December 2014
Responsibilities
• Customer Service duties, dealing with returns, refunds and exchanges.
• Cash handling, working on the tills serving customers.
• Shop floor, filling gaps in the displays, moving stock from the main stock to the shop floor. Up keep
of the jewellery displays.
• Stock counts.
• Delivery.
• Picking customers' orders and serving them at collection.

Lead Play worker
Broadfields Community Play scheme-Edgware
June 2014 to August 2014
Responsibilities
• Plan, set up and run daily activities for children aged 4-11 years with weekly outings offsite.
• Accounts, child registrations, general admin
• Child protection issues
• Key worker for selected children
• Dealing any needs or issues of parents and carers of key children

Lead Play worker
Fair Play Barnet Summer Scrap Play Project
August 2013 to August 2014
Responsibilities
• Leading a team in providing outdoor play provision with limited resources, working from a container as
our base and using nothing but scrap materials and resources we already had as well as donated items
from the local community
• Plan, set up and supervise outdoor play for children from 5-17 year olds
• To insure all health and safety checks and measures have been checked and put in place where needed
• Collect all registrations and registers
• keep up to date session plans and reports, child records, member registrations
• To insure all the team are up to date an informed of any safeguarding issues, general issues and day
to day issues

Youth worker
Sailing Residential, SEYP Salcombe Bay-Devon, UK
August 2013 to August 2013
Responsibilities
• Commute safely and responsibly with 14 children on public transport from London to our destination
in Devon and back again
• Assist instructors on board the ship with many different sailing activities i.e. kayaking, sailing, raft
building, crabbing etc.
• Continuous safety assessments written and verbally
• Keeping children occupied during free times

Youth worker
Future versity, London Academy-Ball
2013 to 2013
cooking course
Responsibilities
• Plan, set up and supervise cooking session with 8-17 year olds
• Give children health and safety talk and go through basic safety precautions and fire evacuations
• Assist children when needed in tasks
• Keep records of attendance, health and safety checks, session plans and reports
• Team leader of the course.
Freelance face painting, Super87ltd
Face painter

All different community and private events
11/3/2010- present
Responsibilities
• Face painting children and adults from 9 months to 84 years
• Working alongside NUTMEG organisation
• Working with Sure Start children's centre Edgware
• Working with family mosaic, Barnet homes, Barnet council
• Working with St Peters Community Church, Edgware Parish Council
• Also many private events i.e. birthday parties, club nights


Voluntary work

part paid part volunteer Youth Worker
Stonegrove Estates' Youth Project, St Peters Community Hall-Edgware
September 2010 to July 2012
Edgware 9/9/2010 - June 2016
Responsibilities
• Register children into the youth club
• Assist with many different types of sessions for children aged 5-17
• Help with off-site outings with children aged 5-17
• Running the youth café with junior leaders
• Setting up and closing down youth club
• Encouraging the children in free play
Assist class teacher
BROADFIELD PRIMARY SCHOOL-Edgware
September 2011 to January 2012
in set up of different activities i.e. setting up a post office, painting, small world carpet
• Follow EYFS structure and plans
• Help children with their personal reading
• Be on hand if the children need any help in any tasks or activities
• Observations on key children
• Help put together children's travel journey (day book)

Play Worker
Graham Park community centre-Colindale
July 2010 to November 2010
July 2010 - November 2010
Art sessions with parents and children
• Plan, set up and lead in different arts and crafts exercises showing the parents activities that can be
done at home with their children at very little cost
• Resource own materials and ideas
• Help main worker with setting up different areas of learning and a wide range of activities for children
under 5
Qualifications and Certificates
Bronze award in arts and crafts with under 5's