We offer a range of tailored, cost-effective vocational, case management and rehabilitation services. Founded by Fiona Rumney, who has more than 30 years’ professional experience, Affinity EDM provides affordable services to support employees, employers and managers.
Only 20% of disabled people were born with their condition. Anyone, at any time, may develop an illness or disability that means they will need support to be able to continue to work as they have done.
There are also thousands of people struggling with genuine but undiagnosed conditions such as dyslexia, autism, ADHD or poor mental health. For them, a screening assessment leading to a diagnosis can be life-changing, giving them and their families and employers a better understanding of their difficulties and what strategies can help them.
All of the long-term health conditions that can impact employees give employers additional legal responsibilities. We can advise on those and provide training to support your team.
Affinity EDM is committed to working to the VRA UK, CMSUK and IRCM standards and best practice guidelines in our scope of practice. Fiona Rumney and her associates are fully insured for professional indemnity and public liability.
All of our support packages can be tailored to your precise needs. Just contact us for a free initial consultation and to find out more about how we work to support others in work.
This service can be provided on a remote or face-to-face basis and provides a comprehensive and holistic evaluation of a person’s vocational skills and experience. It is designed for individuals with complex or multiple barriers to gaining and/or retaining sustainable employment.
Vocational Case Management is a holistic and personalised service designed to support people with barriers to employment due to disability or ill health. It is delivered through regular contact with clients over an agreed period of time by a Vocational Rehabilitation Consultant.
Screening is a cost-effective, highly accurate first step if someone is struggling with writ-ten tasks or processing written information, and yet they have other abilities which show they do have capacity to work at an appropriate level for their role.
Holistic, proactive and person-centred support services, tailored to individual need and circumstances. They’re designed for people navigating employment challenges due to disability, injury or neurodivergence and learning differences who would benefit from support with job search, CV preparation or review and redeployment into a new job role.
This is suitable for when a change of career is needed, for example, following an injury that prevents a person from returning to their previous job role or following redundancy.
Mental ill health can affect anyone at any time, sometimes prompted by external triggers in someone’s personal life, coping with health or personal issues, large scale events like the global pandemic and its aftermath, or economic pressures and uncertainties. Whilst this is becoming better understood, it can create significant disruption and costs to employers due to the impact on an employee’s productivity and/or sickness absence.
Contact us for a FREE initial consultancy to find out how Affinity EDM can help you today!
I am an HR Manager with 28 years’ experience, who has struggled with panic, anxiety and stress periodically throughout my career. Fiona intervened and liaised with my employer to advise on and implement a number of reasonable adjustments. As a result, I was deployed into a role more suitable to my skills. Had this not happened my employment might have ended. Fiona gives brilliant, reassuring, practical support when you need it.
Fiona is lovely and she was incredibly supportive. I was at a very low point in my life and couldn’t see a way forward. Fiona listened with empathy and recognised that I have a visual processing disorder called Irlen Syndrome. She then arranged for me to have a formal assessment, which was incredibly helpful in helping me to identify and understand the issues I was having, as well as developing some practical strategies to help me. Fiona’s ability to understand neurodiversity in the many ways it manifests itself (even when we are unaware of it ourselves) is amazing. She is highly intuitive and couples that with a vast amount of professional knowledge and experience.
Fiona, you are such a lovely caring person who has helped me through my hardest time in my life – you are a caring, warm and a lovely person. Thank you for all your support.
Fiona, I can’t express how thankful I am for the ongoing support you have given me. I am definitely heading in the right direction. Without knowing you were there I honestly couldn’t have got this far and may not have been able to remain in my job.
I was in a very, very bad way when I met Fiona, having suffered extreme mental abuse from my employer. I had more or less given up hope of ever feeling happy and normal again. But after 17 years of being scared all the time, Fiona has truly gone above and beyond the call of duty to help me.
I cannot express my thanks to Fiona enough. So I will just say this. On your darkest night, when you think you can’t cope any more, Fiona has got your back.
Fiona has supported me through a very difficult few months. Through her kind and open reassurance I felt able to be honest with her about the severity of my mental health struggles, which has led me to receive the support that I really needed.
Fiona is professional and reliable, always calling at the arranged time, and giving advice when it’s required. Because of her, I am now back at work, and receiving mental health support which is enabling my recovery to continue.
Affinity EDM (Employment and Disability Management) provides an independent and personalised vocational support service. Founded by Fiona Rumney, Affinity EDM provides work-focused support to clients disadvantaged due to the effects of mental health, learning difference, injury, disability or a long-term health condition.
Tel: 07957 187 025
E-mail: [email protected]
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