Are you a healthcare professional ready to take the next step in your career? Whether you're already working in pelvic health or transitioning into this specialist field, this course provides a strong foundation for your future.

Our Enhanced Clinical Practice (Pelvic Health) PgCert is designed to help you progress into advanced roles, giving you the confidence to assess, diagnose, and manage patients across diverse and complex populations. You’ll strengthen your expertise in delivering safe, person‑centred care while developing the autonomy and judgment needed to lead improvements in service quality and patient outcomes.

You'll explore how research, theory, policy, and practice connect to shape modern healthcare. You'll learn to apply these insights to optimise care delivery, while building your leadership and educational skills. By the end, you’re not only advancing your own practice, you’re positioning yourself to improve services and enhance the wellbeing of those you care for.

You’ll gain specialist knowledge in pelvic health assessment and management, exploring conditions such as incontinence, pelvic organ prolapse, pelvic pain, and postnatal recovery across the life course and across genders. Alongside clinical expertise, you’ll develop confidence in leadership, teaching, and coaching - skills that will enable you to guide others and contribute to service improvement in your workplace.

This flexible, part‑time postgraduate programme is tailored to support busy professionals like you. You’ll engage in a blended learning model that combines live online seminars, self‑paced digital content, and face‑to‑face workshops in Brunel’s specialist facilities. You’ll build a professional portfolio and complete a quality improvement project, ensuring your learning is directly applied to your clinical context and evidenced for career progression.

A key part of the programme is the hands‑on, practical learning. You'll attend workshops at Brunel’s Uxbridge campus, where you’ll benefit from state‑of‑the‑art facilities including the cadaveric lab, immersive simulation suite, and bespoke simulation technologies. These sessions reinforce your clinical reasoning and skills application, giving you the confidence to deliver advanced pelvic health care in real‑world settings.

Course Content

Throughout this programme, you'll build the essential clinical knowledge, leadership capability, and educational confidence to develop as a capable and reflective enhanced practitioner in pelvic health.

A central focus is on clinical practice, where you'll gain a deep understanding of theories and methods relevant to specialist care. You'll learn to apply this knowledge in assessment, diagnosis, and management across diverse populations, including those with complex conditions. The programme emphasises professional judgment, autonomy, and safe, effective care, while also developing your skills in research, audit, and critical appraisal to support evidence-based decision-making and service improvement.

You'll learn how to carry out comprehensive pelvic health assessments, including vaginal and anorectal examinations, delivered within legal, ethical, and consent frameworks. The course equips you to assess and manage a wide range of nonmechanical pelvic floor dysfunctions, including multi-system presentations such as pelvic pain, incontinence, prolapse, and conditions like endometriosis. You'll develop an advanced understanding of pelvic anatomy, pathophysiology, and the psychosocial dimensions of care, applying this knowledge through holistic, person-centred clinical reasoning.