Success story: CleanEvent Services

When CleanEvent Services decided to consolidate its various platforms and processes into one straightforward and streamlined solution, it chose to partner with Access.

In the video below, HR Manager Sara Hinsley explains why they decided to work with us and how they’re benefiting from selecting Access People for their HR, recruitment, learning management, learning content, health & safety, ‘right to work’, screening, and on-demand pay technology needs, all accessible on our single sign-on Workspace platform.

CleanEvent Services, or CES, is the UK’s leading soft services provider. It specialises in sport, leisure, healthcare, education, and retail venues, ensuring an exceptional experience for its clients’ guests. These clients include Liverpool FC, Aintree, Silverstone, Ascot Racecourse, the Olympic Games, Eastgate Shopping Centre and the Hippodrome Casino.

Its mission is to elevate the business from good to great, and we’re delighted they chose Access to help them achieve that ambition.

“During the time we were looking at providers, I felt that Access People were always supportive. Always friendly. I looked at feedback from your existing clients, and all of it was good. We had video calls, the system was explained really, really well, and you delivered some really good presentations and demonstrations to our directors. And you were very flexible to everybody’s needs,” Sara explains.

Over the next 12-24 months, CES plans to secure more contracts, leading to growth in employee numbers. So it’s more important than ever for them to streamline systems and processes across the board, from recruitment and onboarding to learning & development, health & safety, and payroll. All these functions are now moving to our unified platform which has been designed to scale with the needs of a growing business, so CES has the freedom to do more.

Last year, while working with the Home Office, CES was advised it needed an improved solution for its recruitment and onboarding functions. From there the goal to upgrade, consolidate, and streamline grew, with one of the main objectives being to simplify HR functions for the management team. So, let’s take a detailed look at the solution we’re implementing:

• Scalable HR with PeopleXD

Access PeopleXD is a mobile-first HR solution designed to help you transform your people strategy, and to scale with your growing business. It provides a fully integrated suite of payroll, people management, workforce management, talent management, digital learning, recruitment, and analytics software, all accessible on the Workspace platform.

CES needed to find an HR solution which could scale to meet expansion plans and PeopleXD delivered this, as well as host of other benefits, including:

• Recruitment

Following advice from the Home Office, and in line with its growth projection, one of CES’s top priorities was our end-to-end recruitment solution. It can now automate processes, and use a suite of tools to make smarter compliant recruiting decisions. In turn, this can increase the return on investment by helping CES to attract and retain the best talent and reduce admin time.

• Payroll

Access Payroll is designed for the changing requirements of a growing business. You can build the solution you need now, and scale as required in future. And it’s available on-the-go in our app, so it can be accessed by all employees, wherever they’re based.

• EarlyPay

In addition, CES chose to add EarlyPay as an offering for its people. EarlyPay is our on-demand payroll app which gives employees instant access to pay they’ve already earned. Our latest survey tells us companies who use EarlyPay have seen an 80% increase in loyalty, and that 93% of people who’ve used on-demand pay say it’s helped them through the cost-of-living crisis.

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Learning management software is essential for organisations that want to deliver effective online training. Our LMS has delivered the solution CES needed to support learning and development, and to track training and compliance.

And with Personalised Learning, CES employees now have access to bespoke learning pathways, using our extensive collection of eLearning courses to support effective and engaging online learning.

Learn more about how Access Learning can help you deliver effective learning throughout your organisation.

Access Health & Safety allows you to assign, track, manage, and report on health & safety risk and compliance training throughout your workforce, delivering the right training course content at the right time.

The software will allow CES to automate and streamline their processes, so in turn they can build, embed, and evidence a safety culture aligned with their shift from good to great.

“It’s so important that we have the right people and the right processes in place to take the business forward. We might have some good processes now, but hopefully in another 12 months’ time we’ll be great!” concludes Sara.

The Access Group's HCM division, Access People, offer an unrivalled suite of solutions for businesses, including HR and Payroll, Absence Management, Workforce Management, Compliance, Recruitment, Talent, Learning, Employee Benefits and Engagement, Health & Safety, all of which are underpinned by the powerful Access Workspace platform. 

The Access Group is one of the leading providers of business management software to small and mid-sized organisations in the UK, Ireland, and Asia Pacific. We help over 100,000 customers across commercial and not-for-profit sectors become more productive and efficient.