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7 min readRead articleAesthetic clinics sell confidence, and the people who speak to the client carry the brand. This page covers practitioners, counsellors and the discipline needed around treatments.

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Share your requirementsAn aesthetic or cosmetic clinic offers treatments such as skin, hair and body procedures chosen by clients who pay out of pocket. Practitioners with medical qualifications work alongside therapists, consultants or counsellors who explain options and close packages. Treatment rooms, lasers and other devices need trained operators and careful cleaning between clients. Appointments are long and booked in advance, and a no-show wastes a room. Counsellors often have sales targets, which can push them to oversell. Clients photograph results and post reviews, so conduct and consent are reputational matters. Related reading: HR for hospitals. The business needs both clinical discipline and a good client experience, and the two can pull staff in different directions.
These are the places the people side of this kind of business tends to give way. The rest of this page works through them.
HR here has to work for each of these groups, not only the office. The set-up below is written with all of them in mind.
GullyHR runs talent acquisition for permanent roles in aesthetic and cosmetic clinics. For each role we agree the job description with you, find and screen candidates against it, and support the offer through to joining. Tell us the role and the number of people, and we start there.
We recruit permanent employees. We do not supply contract or temporary staff.
Every business interviews, but few have a written process that works the same way for every role and every interviewer. GullyHR designs yours, from the role brief to the offer, trains your managers to run it, and can run it for you on the roles you hand us.
We agree what the role must deliver, the must-have and nice-to-have skills, and how each will be scored.
Screening call, assessment, interview rounds and decision points, sized to the role and the number of people you hire.
Structured questions for each role family and a rating guide, so two interviewers judge the same answer the same way.
A short briefing for your managers on what to ask, what to avoid and how to give a clear yes or no.
Who approves, how the offer is made, and how candidates are kept informed from first call to joining.
Pay linked tightly to package sales encourages promises the treatment may not meet.
Operators pick up laser and machine settings by watching, with no sign-off.
Forms, explanations and photographs are handled differently by each staff member.
A therapist who leaves takes regular clients with her.
Long bookings lost at the last minute leave idle staff and unpaid hours.
Visiting doctors do sessions across several clinics with weak ties to any one.
Turnaround pressure shortens room and device preparation.
One bad review leads to blame among staff, not a look at what went wrong.
Start with the topics that matter most here: Compensation, Payroll and Benefits; Learning and Development; Policies, Compliance and Governance. Then work through the rest. Each topic is written for healthcare, not in general.
Salary structure, payroll inputs and a month that closes on time.
Training planned from need rather than from the calendar.
Policies a manager can apply, and obligations with owners and dates.
How many people, in which roles, by when — and what they will cost.
Structure, reporting lines and who is allowed to decide what.
Requisition to joining, the same way every time.
A first day that is the same for the fifth joiner as the first.
Records, attendance, leave and the day-to-day HR that must simply work.
Goals, reviews and ratings that hold up in a conversation.
Named backups for the roles that cannot be vacant.
Communication, recognition and the conditions people actually work in.
Two routes — one for complaints, one for conduct — kept separate.
Induction, records, incident reporting and follow-through.
Who leaves, when, why — and which of them mattered.
Resignation to relieving letter, in a defined order.
Records that survive people, and approvals that do not queue.
A short monthly pack management actually reads.
An HR function that runs the same way every month.
The pieces a aesthetic and cosmetic clinics business puts in place, in an order that makes each easier. Open any card for the detail.
Pay that rewards client satisfaction and completed treatments as well as sales, with clear honesty rules.
Pay that rewards client satisfaction and completed treatments as well as sales, with clear honesty rules. Compensation benchmarking guides the design.
A written list of devices each person may operate alone, approved by a named practitioner after supervised cases.
A written list of devices each person may operate alone, approved by a named practitioner after supervised cases. The learning and development process holds the plan.
One form set and one explanation script, checked weekly for completeness.
One form set and one explanation script, checked weekly for completeness. HR documentation covers the staff side.
Shared client records, rotation of cases and fair pay for senior therapists, so loyalty is to the clinic.
Shared client records, rotation of cases and fair pay for senior therapists, so loyalty is to the clinic.
Sessions, fees, cover, conduct and notice, with attendance records.
Sessions, fees, cover, conduct and notice, with attendance records. The payroll process handles payment.
A short written checklist and time for cleaning, with a roster that allows it.
A short written checklist and time for cleaning, with a roster that allows it. The attendance and shift process fits it in.
Before changing anything, find out what is true today. These checks take an afternoon and tell you which of the topics above to start with.
Share your requirementsConfirm with a qualified professional. What applies to you depends on your business, your state and your arrangements, and it changes. This page describes practice. It does not state a legal position.
The services below fit this kind of business best. Each starts by recording where you stand, and every later report compares against that. We do not promise outcomes.
Incentive design that does not reward overselling.
Device sign-off and counsellor honesty training.
Consistent consent and staff paperwork.
A fair way to handle client complaints involving staff.
Start with a free conversation, or see the paid HR Diagnostic.
Understand the hospital, its workforce, current processes and HR challenges.
Find the missing, weak, inconsistent or person-dependent processes.
Create the structure, processes, policies, SOPs, dashboards and systems needed.
Help HR and department managers actually adopt the new system.
Digitise repetitive and approval-based workflows where it is worth doing.
Track hiring, attendance, employee cost, performance, training and attrition.
Strengthen the people-management system continuously, not once.
From the GullyHR blog: one on HR in healthcare, and one on each of the topics this page points to.

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Reward satisfaction and completed treatments alongside sales, set honesty rules and review client complaints against the sales record.
Only people signed off by a named practitioner after supervised cases. Confirm qualification needs with a qualified professional.
Keep client records with the clinic, rotate cases and pay senior staff fairly. Confirm what restrictions can be written into contracts with a qualified professional.
Hear both sides, check the record and consent form, and follow a written process. Do not decide on a review alone.
Use reminders, deposits where suitable, and rosters that flex. Do not leave staff idle on unpaid time.
The treatments, their limits, consent steps, honesty rules and how to handle doubt, with a senior practitioner explaining clinical points.
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