Supporting health and wellbeing at work
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.
Fiona offers a range of specialised vocational assessment and case management, training, screening, and individual employment support services across a wide range of health difficulties and disabilities tailored to individual need.
Fiona is passionate about vocational rehabilitation and the positive impact it can have on people’s lives. She has over 30 years’ experience working within the Welfare to Work, Occupational Case Management and Vocational Rehabilitation sectors.
Fiona is a Certified Disability Management Professional (CDMP). She is certified in Adult Dyslexia Vocational Evaluation (Dyslexia Screening) and is a trained Systematic Instruction (job coach) practitioner. Fiona is qualified and registered with the British Psychological Society as a Test User in Occupational Ability to deliver psychometric assessments. She holds qualifications and certifications in Equality and Diversity and in Safeguarding Adults and Young People. In addition, Fiona holds an NVQ3 in Information, Advice and Guidance.
Fiona holds professional membership with the Vocational Rehabilitation Association (VRA) UK, the Case Management Society UK (CMSUK) and she is a Registered Case Manager with the Institute of Registered Case Managers (IRCM). Fiona also holds Practitioner Membership with the British Association of Brain Injury and Complex Case Management (BABICM).
Fiona started her career working with the Department for Employment in 1984. Since then, she’s been a Disability Employment Adviser for Jobcentre Plus and worked for a major welfare-to-work provider in Occupational Case Management (OCM), including training staff moving into OCM roles.
Fiona was a Vocational Rehabilitation Consultant for Remploy’s Vocational Rehabilitation Service team for 20 years, and a Consultant for the Access to Work Mental Health Programme. She has delivered vocational assessment and case management services for medico-legal clients and the Ministry of Defence, supporting armed forces personnel and veterans with the transition into civilian life and employment. More recently, her work in that role has been with clients in a variety of commercial, educational and third sector organisations.
Fiona currently works delivering vocational assessment and case management, information, advice, and guidance services through Affinity EDM. She also works as an Associate Vocational Case Manager for specialist organisations, delivering vocational assessment and case management services, specialising in catastrophic injury and brain injury.
For several years now, Fiona has served as a committee member and a Specialist Literacy Expert and Co-ordinator Support for Read Easy (Torbay and South Devon), a part of the adult literacy charity Read Easy UK. Fiona has also worked as a Volunteer Befriender for Torbay Community Development Trust.
Affinity EDM is committed to the Vocational Rehabilitation Association (VRA) UK’s Standards of Practice and Code of Conduct for Vocational Rehabilitation Practitioners; the Case Management Society UK (CMSUK) Standards of Practice and Best Practice Guidelines; and the Institute of Registered Case Managers (IRCM) standards of practice. Fiona holds professional membership of the VRA UK and CMS UK and she is a Registered Case Manager with the IRCM. Fiona also holds Practitioner Membership with the British Association of Brain Injury and Complex Case Management (BABICM).
All of our clients, whether individuals or companies, are treated with the utmost respect and confidentiality. Affinity EDM is registered with the Information Commissioner’s Office as a Data Processor and handles all personal data in compliance with the Data Protection Act 2018 and the General Data Protection Regulation.
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]
Copyright © 2025 Affinity EDM
Developed by Gecho Agency
