Enhanced Clinical Practice (Pelvic Health) Brunel University of London

Overview

This Enhanced Clinical Practice (Pelvic Health) PgCert at Brunel University of London 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.

Careers and your future

On the Enhanced Clinical Practice (Pelvic Health) PgCert, you'll build the confidence, capability, and clinical knowledge to specialise in pelvic health, or integrate pelvic health skills within your existing area of practice. The course prepares you to take on enhanced roles that improve patient care and contribute to service innovation. Such roles include:

• Specialist Pelvic Health Physiotherapist
• Pelvic Health Clinical Nurse Specialist
• Perinatal Pelvic Health Midwife
• Bladder and Bowel / Continence Specialist Practitioner
• First Contact Practitioner (FCP) with extended scope in pelvic health
• Primary care practitioners managing pelvic health in GP and community settings
• Military rehabilitation leads incorporating pelvic floor assessment into complex musculoskeletal care
• Sports physiotherapists applying pelvic health screening and management in female athlete health and return-to-sport strategies