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Role: AP(Vent) / CP(Vent) - Â Healthcare Ventilation Compliance
Location: Kent
Contract Type: Permanent
Sector: Healthcare Ventilation / Building Services / Compliance
Salary: £50,000
A specialist healthcare engineering and compliance provider is seeking an experienced AP(Vent) / CP(Vent) professional to deliver authorised ventilation verification, testing, certification, and compliance assurance across live healthcare environments.
This role is critical to ensuring ventilation systems meet HTM 03-01 and associated healthcare standards, supporting safe operation, handover, and ongoing compliance within high-risk clinical environments.
The successful candidate will act as the competent person responsible for verifying critical ventilation systems and liaising with estates, clinical, and project stakeholders.
Key Responsibilities
- Carry out ventilation verification testing on new, refurbished, and existing healthcare ventilation systems
- Verify airflow volumes (supply, extract, transfer) and air change rates (ACH)
- Assess and confirm pressure regimes and pressure cascades in positive and negative pressure environments
- Undertake room integrity testing where applicable
- Verify temperature and humidity performance
- Test alarms, interlocks, and failsafe systems via BMS and local controls
- Verify system performance against design intent, HTM 03-01 requirements, and site policies
- Witness and validate commissioning activities, including review of test sheets, commissioning plans, O&M manuals, and handover documentation
- Produce compliance documentation, verification reports, certification packs, and non-conformance logs
- Liaise with Estates teams, IPC, clinical users, M&E contractors, commissioning engineers, and project management teams
- Ensure all test equipment is calibrated, traceable, and audit-ready
- Work safely in live healthcare environments, complying with RAMS, permits, infection control procedures, and site protocols
- Support project handover and ongoing compliance activities
Requirements
- Demonstrable experience delivering ventilation verification within live healthcare estates
- Proven background in hospital ventilation testing and certification
- Strong working knowledge of HTM 03-01 and pressure cascade principles
- Ability to interpret mechanical drawings, schematics, and technical documentation
- Excellent written reporting skills with a clear, auditable approach
- Ability to work autonomously and manage multiple sites or projects
Qualifications
Essential
- Current AP(Vent) or CP(Vent) appointment and/or recognised HTM 03-01 ventilation certification
- Relevant building services or mechanical engineering qualification, or equivalent experience
Desirable
- CIBSE commissioning knowledge or qualification
- CSCS, IOSH, or SSSTS
- IPAF / PASMA
- Experience validating theatre ventilation and other critical environments
What’s on Offer
- Permanent role with a long-term healthcare project pipeline
- Competitive salary aligned to market rates
- Company vehicle or travel allowance (role dependent)
- Pension and holiday entitlement
- Ongoing professional development and re-certification support
