The Community Mental Health Team is based at St Johns Villa, Jamestown Hospital.

Contact Details

Telephone: 22593
or via Hospital switchboard: 22500

Opening hours:
Monday to Friday,8:30am – 4:00pm

Emergency and Out-of-Hours Support

In emergencies there is an on call system for out of hours, please contact the General Hospital on Tel: 22500.

Referral process:

The Mental Health Team accepts:

  • Self-referrals
  • Referrals from family members, professionals, or other third parties, as long as the person has consented 

Referrals can be made by

  • Emailing – Team Leader Mental Health St Johns Villa, email: Ian.rummery@sainthelena.gov.sh 
  • Calling the office on 22593
  • Calling the hospital on 22500
  • Coming in person, to St Johns Villa
  • Ask staff from Health and Social Care to refer

We aim to offer an appointment within two weeks for all routine referrals. Urgent referrals within 72 hours, emergency referral within 24 hours.   

Services provided by the Mental Health Team

The St Helena Mental Health Team provides comprehensive, person-centred support for all age groups, ranging from emotional wellbeing support to severe mental illness management 

Operating primarily as an opt-in service, it covers everything from talking therapies to crisis intervention, inpatient treatment and community education.

Team members

  • Team leader and Adult Community Psychiatric Nurse (CPN)
  • Adult CPN
  • Child and adolescent CPN
  • Named doctor
  • Support worker

Remote – off island support 

  • Clinical psychologists
  • Therapists
  • Consultant Psychiatrist available remotely (visits the Island once a
    year).

Feedback and Complaints

We welcome feedback on our services. Your feedback helps us improve our services. In order to understand your experience of our care, we may ask you to complete the ‘Friends and family questionnaire’ which we will give you in our clinic.

If you would like to raise a concern about our service, please contact the team on 22593 and speak to the Team Leader. You can also complete the Health and Social Care complaint form and email it to: health.socialcarefeedback@sainthelena.gov.sh the form is found on the website here and can also be collected at the hospital reception.

If you prefer to complete the health department complaint form, which can found requested at the Hospital then please do so and submit to the Director of Health, Health Directorate, General hospital Jamestown.

To view the Schedule of Fees for Residents and Visitors, scroll to the bottom of the Health and Social Care page here.