Simone EADES

• Oversee the day-to-day operations of the laboratory, including staffing and workflow.
• Utilize advanced technical skills and expertise to troubleshoot complex problems, and implement solutions.
• Demonstrate strong problem-solving skills, resolving issues efficiently and effectively.
• Define priorities, delegated tasks and planned workflow for laboratory personnel.
• Recruit new employees to meet job requirements.
• Implement training programs for all areas within the laboratory, and instigated initial and ongoing competency testing.
• Ensured that all regulatory standards are met during laboratory operations.
• Oversee maintenance of the Quality System, and update quality documents as required.
• Manage and maintain laboratory equipment, including calibrations, repairs, and preventative maintenance.
• Implemented and updated routine equipment maintenance records and schedule.
• Established quality control programs for laboratory activities.
• Developed and wrote standard operating procedures for lab practices.
• Ordered supplies to maintain sufficient inventory levels in the lab.
• Utilize advanced technical skills and expertise to troubleshoot complex problems, and implement solutions.

• Extensive clinical and scientific expertise in histology.
• Able to develop evidence-based practices for the implementation of policy, procedures, and new and emerging technologies used within the Anatomical Pathology laboratory, e.g. Molecular techniques, instrumentation, IT solutions, and digital pathology.
• Responsible and accountable in the management of an efficient, contemporary, effective, and safe Anatomical Pathology service.
• Participate in a feedback culture; this includes one-on-one discussions every two months with all staff, as well as annual performance appraisals.
• Developed specific KPIs for Anatomical Pathology, specifically histology.
• Monitor turnaround times for biopsies and larger specimens for the laboratory.
• Work with pathologists to ensure ongoing requirements are met.
• Develop and manage projects for anatomical pathology, as directed by the Operations Director/Head of Department.
• Worked with the Operations Director of Pathology to develop and manage the departmental budget, and assist in the preparation of the annual budget.
• Participate in the recruitment and onboarding of new staff to the department.
• Prepare and present inter- and intra-departmental management and laboratory staff meetings.
• Together with the departmental OHS representative, develop risk assessments for Anatomical Pathology.

• Participated in the histology roster, completing routine histological tasks.
• Implemented new techniques, which include validating and verifying procedures and reagents, completing necessary documentation, and providing adequate training to all staff members.
• Evaluate and trial equipment, and provide feedback to the Principal Scientist.
• Assisted in staff management, including dealing with any issues that may arise.
• Responsible for deciding work priorities on a daily basis to ensure that the workflow is adequate.
• Responsible for stock maintenance.
• Involved with the RCPA-QAP program.
• Responsible for delegating technical tasks to staff, and participating in the training of both new and junior staff. Also responsible for scheduling observation assessments and completing annual competency assessments, competent in the use of Q-Pulse (Quality Management System), and able to successfully complete document control, CAPAs, and internal audits.
• Write and implement rosters.
• Assist the Principal Scientist with projects.
• Act in the Principal Scientist's absence. Responsible for the day-to-day runnings of Anatomical Pathology.

• Participate in the histology roster, completing routine histology tasks. This may also include performing frozen sections, immunohistochemistry, attending renal biopsies, and completing surgical cut-up. I
• Implement new techniques, which include validating and verifying procedures and reagents, completing necessary documentation, and providing adequate training to all staff members.
• Evaluate trial equipment, and provide feedback to the Associate Program Director.
• Assist in staff management, including any issues that may arise.
• Responsible for deciding work priorities on a daily basis to ensure work flow is adequate.
• Responsible for stock maintenance
• Involved in the internal auditing program within Eastern Health Pathology.
• Involved with the RCPA-QAP program.
• Responsible for delegating technical tasks to staff, and organizing meetings to review slides before they are submitted to the RCPA-QAP, and again when results are published.
• Responsible for the maintenance of equipment used within the histology department. Participate in the training of both new and junior staff.
• Also responsible for scheduling observation assessments and completing annual competency assessments
• Competent in the use of Q-Pulse (Quality Management System), and able to successfully complete document control, quality opportunities (QOs), and internal audits.
• Write and implement rosters
• Work up and finalize costings for clinical trials and research projects.
• Assist the Associate Program Director with projects.
• Act in the Associate Program Director's absence: contracts, business cases, and completing LOC reports.

• Responsible for processing, sectioning, and staining routine histological specimens.
• Involved with macroscopically describing and "cutting up" surgical specimens received from both doctors' offices and operating theaters.
• Giving professional advice on histological matters.
• Responsible for performing routine immunohistochemistry on surgical specimens.
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• Responsible for performing frozen sections on skin specimens for direct immunofluorescence studies.
• Involved in the Laboratory's Internal Audit program, and reviewing and updating the Laboratory's control documentation.
• Ensuring that the laboratory equipment is maintained and cleaned.

Provided assistance to the 21C with the day-to-day running of the histology.

• Helped supervise junior staff when appropriate.
• Involved with the macroscopic description and cutting up of surgical specimens received from both doctors' offices and operating theaters. Involved in processing, sectioning, and staining routine histological specimens.
• Responsible for performing frozen sections on surgical specimens for rapid diagnosis.
• Responsible for performing frozen sections on skin specimens for direct immunofluorescence studies.
• Responsible for routinely performing immunohistochemistry on surgical specimens.
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• Responsible for refining new antibodies for use within the laboratory.
• Giving professional advice on histological matters.

• Responsible for the Histology Laboratory at the Ballarat Base Hospital. Only full-time scientist in a laboratory.
• Responsible for processing, sectioning, and staining both surgical and post-mortem specimens.
• Responsible for processing, sectioning, and staining both surgical and post-mortem specimens.
• Responsible for performing frozen sections on surgical specimens for rapid.
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• Responsible for the organization of the histology laboratory.
• Supervision of staff, where appropriate.
• Giving professional advice on histological matters.

• Responsible for processing, sectioning, and staining both surgical and post-mortem specimens for light and electron microscopy.
• Responsible for routine performing immunohistochemistry on surgical specimens.
• Responsible for performing frozen sections on surgical specimens for rapid diagnosis.
• Responsible for performing frozen sections and subsequent cytochemistry studies on bowel biopsies suspected of having Hirschsprung's disease.
• Responsible for refining new antibodies for use within the laboratory.