Employee Self-Service (ESS)
ESS access for casual staff
About ESS
ESS enables you to:
- view, download and print your payslips and P60s
- add or amend your address, phone numbers, email addresses and emergency contact details
- view your sickness record
- update your qualifications and personal equality data
- access your mandatory training.
Accessing ESS for the first time
Guidance with screenshots can be found below these steps.
- You will receive an email invitation to access ESS.
- Select the Accept invitation link at the bottom of the email.
- Select Send code.
- You will receive an email with a unique code.
- Enter the code, then select Sign in.
- Read the permission request, then select Accept.
(You may need to wait 24 hours to access ESS.) - Select the link https://www.uwe.ac.uk/hronline-ess.
- Select Single Sign-on account.
- Select Next.
- Select I want to set up a different method at the bottom of the screen.
(Do not download the MS Authenticator App). - Select Phone from the dropdown list, then select Confirm.
- Select your dialling code from the dropdown list and enter your phone number, then select Next.
- You will receive a text message with a unique code.
- Enter the code, then select Next.
- Select Next.
- Select Done.
You can now continue logging onto ESS.
Accessing ESS for the first time (with screenshots)
- You will receive an email invitation to access ESS.
- Select the Accept invitation link at the bottom of the email.
- Select Send code:
- You will receive an email with a unique code.
- Enter the code, then select Sign in:
- Read the permission request, then select Accept.
(You may need to wait 24 hours to access ESS):
- Select the link https://www.uwe.ac.uk/hronline-ess.
- Select Single Sign-on account:
- Select Next:
- Select I want to set up a different method at the bottom of the screen.
(Do not download the MS Authenticator App):
- Select Phone from the dropdown list, then select Confirm:
- Select your dialling code from the dropdown list and enter your phone number, then select Next:
- You will receive a text message with a unique code.
- Enter the code, then select Next:
- Select Next:
- Select Done:
You can now continue logging onto ESS.
Logging onto ESS
Guidance with screenshots can be found below these steps.
- Go to https://www.uwe.ac.uk/hronline-ess.
- Select Single Sign-on account.
- Select the email account you registered with.
- You will receive an email with a unique code.
- Enter the code, then select Sign in.
- Select Text.
- You will receive a text message with a unique code.
- Enter the code, then select Verify.
- You will be redirected and successfully logged in to ESS.
You can now access your payslip(s) and mandatory training.
Logging onto ESS (with screenshots)
- Go to https://www.uwe.ac.uk/hronline-ess.
- Select Single Sign-on account:
- Select the email account you registered with:
- You will receive an email with a unique code.
- Enter the code, then select Sign in:
- Select Text:
- You will receive a text message with a unique code.
- Enter the code, then select Verify:
You will be redirected and successfully logged in to ESS.
You can now access your payslip(s) and mandatory training.
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