Ashley Williamson-Morton

• Delivering efficient, effective and safe pharmaceutical care to patients in both community and primary care settings.
• Assisting patients, medical teams and colleagues with the often complex patient pathways between community, general practice and hospital care.
• Effectively prioritised tasks and organised workflow to increase efficiency.
• Patient-oriented experienced in providing comprehensive clinical pharmacy services.
• Maintaining professional development and continually seeking out new opportunities to advance patient care.

Assessor for Independent Prescribing Course

• Assessing written assignments
• Assessing online OSCE exams both formative and summative

• Partnered with peers, GP's, advanced nurses and other members of healthcare team to optimise patient care through effective use of medications.
• Applied digital systems to provide medication review, and advice remotely.
• Maintained and authorised medication safety and cost efficiency software updates for health board.
• Prepared and implemented quality efficiency projects including green inhalers advice for prescribers.

• Advisor for electronic prescribing pathways including membership of working group for NHS Scotland to review and innovate prescribing pathways.
• Collaborated with universities, NHS education team and health board colleagues to support the national adaptation of professional development frameworks for pharmacists and pharmacy technicians in primary care.
• Coordinated regular meetings to share and analyse local and national performance data and informed lead pharmacists and directors with progress reports and strategy.
• Implemented simulation training peer review pilots locally.

Interim Secondment Role

• Managed and mentored staff of 50 colleagues and delivered focused oversight and support to the team during Covid-19.
• Working alongside key stakeholders for the health board to advise on strategy for the primary care pharmacy team.
• Planning and implementation of remote working and hybrid working models.
• Collaborating with IT colleagues to troubleshoot and resolve issues related to efficient service delivery.
• Interpreting and implementing risk management tools related to pandemic protocols.

• Service development including training and education responsibilities to develop pharmacists new to role.
• Advised and implemented streamlined practice processes and update procedures to support patients with accessing medication and care.
• Responsible for delivering a pharmacotherapy service to 10 GP practices, 6 Care Homes as well as management and mentorship for 15 colleagues.
• Successfully completed MSc and leadership training whilst working full time.

Seconded Part Time Post

• Working alongside colleagues, universities and peers to deliver peer review opportunities to pharmacists across Scotland
• Delivering training to new pharmacists and calibration sessions to established peer review pharmacists.
• Preparing training modules for e-learning packages including pharmacotherapy e-learning module for all new primary care pharmacists across NHS Scotland.

• Working in GP practices managing acute medication requests, immediate discharge letters, patient reviews and queries.
• Care home polypharmacy reviews
• Delivered education and training to colleagues and medical teams including setting up practices to deliver serial prescribing to improve patient pathways in primary care.
• Implementing serial prescribing in a number of practices, supporting other health board teams with implementation.
• Developing and implementing Quality Improvement projects including drug monitoring templates for GP systems.

• Working in remote & rural area providing pharmacy services to patients on the mainland and surrounding islands.
• Engaging in the local community including being a member of the local multi disciplinary team and community council.
• Set up serial prescribing pathways to enable patients easier access to medication in collaboration with local GP.
• Interviewed, hired and trained staff, enabling business to serve more patients.

• After gaining early entry onto company's accelerated ‘stepping stones for professionals' course I took on a more senior management role of a local pharmacy store within NHS Tayside.
• Overall responsibility of running pharmacy, cash handling, staff training and clinical service provision
• Meticulous attention to detail helped run a highly successful and reputable pharmacy with prescription volume increasing by 20% in the first year in role.

• Relief pharmacist across Tayside area
• Delivering pharmaceutical care in high prescription volume pharmacies
• Networking within company and externally.
• Quickly promoted to pharmacist store manager and enrolled on stepping stones management course

• I was privileged to work in a new hospital with cutting edge systems and robotics at the forefront of pharmacy within Scotland and the UK.
• Rotated as a trainee pharmacist through clinical areas including; cardiology, nephrology, intensive care, high dependency, aseptic, respiratory, medicines information and primary care.
• Project - Unlicensed medicines use in NHS Scotland community pharmacies.