Other TV credits include The Crazy World of Captain Llama, Fair City, Doctors and Waterloo Road.

Brocklebank has worked with the Royal Shakespeare Company in productions of As You Like It playing Silvius, Chiron in Titus Andronicus, Rowland in The Tamer Tamed and Ralph in Lord of the Flies.

In 2009, he played Brother Jasper and Kaisa in His Dark Materials, a co-production between the Birmingham Rep and the West Yorkshire Playhouse.

In December 2014, he joined the cast of Coronation Street as Billy Mayhew, the new vicar at Emily Bishop's parish, St. Mary's, and began dating the barman Sean Tully.

Who I am in my real life should bear no relevance to what I play on screen [...] I remember my management in Los Angeles trying to convince me not to come out because they said it would affect work – and it did [...] I stopped being screen-tested for the heterosexual male leads, and I was either the gay best friend or the character parts.