The Brookfield School
Grandstand Road, Hereford, Herefordshire, HR4 9NG tbsadmin@metacademies.org.uk https://www.thebrookfieldschool.org.uk/
The Brookfield School
About The Brookfield School
Headteachers Welcome
Thank you for your interest in joining The Brookfield School, part of the Mercian Educational Trust (MET).
Do you have a passion for working within a SEMH school? Are you committed to bringing out the best in all the children and ensuring it is a rewarding, positive experience which builds towards an exciting future?
The Brookfield School is a specialist setting with over 120 pupils for pupils. The school serves pupils from all over Herefordshire and the surrounding counties. All pupils on roll have an EHC Plan for SEMH but many also have secondary special educational needs such as Autism or ADHD.
Our ethos is centered on a Trauma Informed approach to education with therapy-informed practice and a sense of empathy and compassion towards our pupils. As a result of our established vision, ethos and Leadership Team, the school is recognized as a strong provision which works well with local mainstream Primary schools to get the best outcomes for the child. If you want to learn more about our school, you may choose to view our website https://www.brookfield.hereford.sch.uk/or visit the school. Visits to the school are welcomed and encouraged- it would be a pleasure to meet you and to show you around.
We look forward to receiving your application.
Yours faithfully,
Mrs Michelle Parkes
Our Vision
Our aim is to CREATE a happy, healthy community in which we can all succeed.
Our curriculum and provision intends to help support our pupils to become:
Confident
Resilient
Emotionally literate
Ambitious
Tolerant and respectful of each other and
Effective communicators.
We have adopted a trauma informed approach to best support our pupils in all aspects of their school lives and are working towards ARC (Attachment Research Centre) Gold accreditation. Through this approach we aim to:
Respond effectively to our vulnerable pupils and those who have suffered trauma or have mental health issues
Develop an understanding of the long-term impact of specific adverse childhood experiences and how to enable our pupils to work through their feelings
Know how to respond to children who are in distress in ways that help them to emotionally regulate, feel psychologically safe and develop the capacity to handle stress well over time
Work to increase the protective factors and ‘safety cues’ in the school culture to prevent adverse childhood experiences from becoming long-term mental, physical and societal health problems.
School staff are trained to be emotionally available in the ways they relate to our pupils and to deliver interventions specifically designed to support them. We need to understand how to help our pupils make sense of what has happened to them. To this end we intend to:
Learn to relate to our pupils in ways that alleviate their suffering, support their learning and make them feel cared for and appreciated
Learn how to relate with our pupils in ways that enhance their self-esteem, confidence and feelings of psychological safety.
Know how to listen and empathize when our pupils want to talk about painful issues and help them reflect and resolve
Develop an in-depth understanding of what it’s like for our pupils to suffer from specific mental health problem (e.g. depression/ anxiety) and feel confident in offering them accurate empathy, understanding and key psycho-education without inferring meaning
Employ strategies for early intervention (early indicators of mental health difficulties), know our limits of competence and refer on to other agencies, when these are available.
For more information
Please visit our school website or call/ email to make an appointment to find out more about us and our work.
Staff Benefits
To learn about career opportunities and benefits, and what it means to work at Mercian Educational Trust, please visit the MET careers page.
Current Vacancies
Let us know you are interested in working with us by joining our Talent Pool.
If you are available for opportunities within our wider family of schools, why not join our Trust Talent Pool?
School Information
Current Vacancies
Let us know you are interested in working with us by joining our Talent Pool.
If you are available for opportunities within our wider family of schools, why not join our Trust Talent Pool?
Are you looking for a different role at The Brookfield School? Let us know you are interested in working with us by joining our Talent Pool.
If you are available for opportunities within our wider family of schools, why not join our Trust Talent Pool?
