Overview

The Good Shepherd Trust (GST) is a family of church school academies within the Diocese of Guildford. Established in 2013 as a multi-academy trust, or MAT, the Trust believes in the value of each young person and the importance of holistic education at all of its schools. 

In partnership with schools the Trust  strives to provide transformational education by setting high standards, encouraging and recognising positive achievement in everyone, raising aspiration, increasing opportunities and improving standards.

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CURRENT OPENINGS



  • Job Title

    Teaching Assistant

  • Location

    Godalming, Surrey

  • Posted

    1st April 2025

  • School

    St Mary's CofE Primary School, Chiddlingfold

  • Salary

    £22,919.00 Annually (FTE) (£12.21/hr)

  • Hours

    Full Time

  • Description

    About this Role An excellent opportunity to join a well-respected school in a lovely rural setting within easy reach of Guildford and the A3. We currently require an enthusiastic, ...

  • Job Title

    Headteacher at St Paul's CofE Primary School

  • Location

    Dorking, Surrey

  • Posted

    1st April 2025

  • School

    St Paul's CofE Primary School

  • Salary

    GST £75,206 to £86,904

  • Hours

    Full Time

  • Description

    About this Role As the leader of the school community, you will model and promote positive attitudes and relationships amongst staff, children, local committee members and parents ...

  • Job Title

    Class Teacher - Maternity Cover

  • Location

    Dorking, Surrey

  • Posted

    1st April 2025

  • School

    St Paul's CofE Primary School

  • Salary

    GST £33,074-£45,037

  • Hours

    Full Time

  • Description

    About this Role Are you passionate about the Early Years? Are you ready to shape, teach and guide a group of motivated learners in their first year in school? At St Paul's, you wi ...

  • Job Title

    Class Teacher

  • Location

    Dorking, Surrey

  • Posted

    31st March 2025

  • School

    The Weald CofE Primary School

  • Salary

    £33,075 - £39,495 Annually (FTE) GST MPS1-MPS7

  • Hours

    Full Time

  • Description

    About this Role - KS2 Teacher Applications are welcome from experienced teachers and ECTs. Do you believe passionately in developing the whole child? Are you a creative teacher? D ...

  • Job Title

    KS2 Class Teacher

  • Location

    Addlestone, Surrey

  • Posted

    27th March 2025

  • School

    St Paul's C of E Primary School

  • Salary

    £33,074.00 - £45,037.00

  • Hours

    Full Time

  • Description

    About this Role Please see attached KS2 Class Teacher Applicant Pack for full details of this role. St Paul’s is a friendly and forward thinking school. We are an established prim ...

  • Job Title

    Learning Support Assistant

  • Location

    Addlestone, Surrey

  • Posted

    27th March 2025

  • School

    St Paul's C of E Primary School

  • Salary

    £15,299.45 FTE £22,599.00

  • Hours

    Part Time, Term Time

  • Description

    St Paul’s Primary School is looking for a caring, nurturing member of staff, who is committed to supporting children's learning both in the classroom and at lunchtime. Although so ...

  • Job Title

    Learning Support Assistant

  • Location

    Ash, Surrey

  • Posted

    27th March 2025

  • School

    Walsh Memorial CofE Infant School

  • Salary

    £22,599.00 (FTE), (Actual: £6,980.00)

  • Hours

    Part Time, Job Share

  • Description

    JOB OVERVIEW At Walsh C. of E. Schools we are looking for a passionate Learning Support Assistant to work collaboratively within the school community to instill in each child a lo ...

  • Job Title

    Learning Support Assistant

  • Location

    Addlestone, Surrey

  • Posted

    27th March 2025

  • School

    St Paul's C of E Primary School

  • Salary

    £15,299.45 Actual, (FTE: £22,599.00)

  • Hours

    Part Time, Term Time

  • Description

    About this Role St Paul’s Primary School is looking for a caring, nurturing member of staff, who is committed to supporting children's learning both in the classroom and at luncht ...

  • Job Title

    KS2 Class Teacher

  • Location

    Addlestone, Surrey

  • Posted

    27th March 2025

  • School

    St Paul's C of E Primary School

  • Salary

    £33,075.00 - £45,037.00

  • Hours

    Full Time

  • Description

    About this Role Please see the attached KS2 Class Teacher Applicant Pack for full details of this role. St Paul’s is a friendly and forward thinking school. We are an established ...

  • Job Title

    Admin Assistant

  • Location

    Cranleigh, Surrey

  • Posted

    26th March 2025

  • School

    Cranleigh C of E Primary School

  • Salary

    £18,123.00 (FTE: £22,599.00)

  • Hours

    Full Time, Term Time

  • Description

    About this Role Duties and Responsibilities: - To be a point of contact for both face to face and telephone enquiries and take messages where appropriate in an efficient, warm and ...

  • Job Title

    Learning Support Assistant

  • Location

    Walton-on-Thames, Surrey

  • Posted

    26th March 2025

  • School

    Ashley CofE Primary School

  • Salary

    £15,964.00 (FTE: £22,599.00)

  • Hours

    Part Time

  • Description

    About this Role We are looking for caring, nurturing ( term time only ) Learning Support Assistants who are committed to supporting children's learning both in the classroom and a ...

  • Job Title

    KS2 Teaching Assistant

  • Location

    Chertsey, Surrey

  • Posted

    26th March 2025

  • School

    Ottershaw Christ Church C of E Schools

  • Salary

    £22,599.00 Annually (FTE)

  • Hours

    Part Time

  • Description

    About this Role Are you committed to making a difference to children's lives? If so, join us on our journey, improving and developing our caring two-form entry school, with an out ...

  • Job Title

    Headteacher

  • Location

    Dorking, Surrey

  • Posted

    18th March 2025

  • School

    St John's CofE Primary School

  • Salary

    GST L17-L23 (£75,206 -£86,904)

  • Hours

    Full Time

  • Description

    Main Purpose of the job: To carry out the duties of a Headteacher recognising the unique features of our school. This is in accordance with the Headteachers’ Standards (2020). Str ...

  • Job Title

    Headteacher

  • Location

    Dorking, Surrey

  • Posted

    18th March 2025

  • School

    Surrey Hills CofE Primary School

  • Salary

    GST L17-L23 (£75,206 -£86,904)

  • Hours

    Full Time

  • Description

    Main Purpose of the job: To carry out the duties of a Headteacher recognising the unique features of our school. This is in accordance with the Headteachers’ Standards (2020). Str ...

  • Job Title

    Teaching Assistant

  • Location

    Farnham, Surrey

  • Posted

    11th March 2025

  • School

    Potters Gate CofE Primary School

  • Salary

    £22,599.00 Annually (FTE)

  • Hours

    Full Time, Part Time

  • Description

    Job Title: Teaching Assistant Scale: GST grade B5, currently £22,599 FTE. This is equivalent to £12.04 per hour. Contract Type: Permanent Contract Term: Part-Time/Full-Time Closin ...

  • Job Title

    KS2 Graduate Teaching Assistant

  • Location

    Chertsey, Surrey

  • Posted

    27th February 2025

  • School

    Ottershaw Christ Church C of E Schools

  • Salary

    £22,599.00 Annually (FTE)

  • Hours

    Part Time

  • Description

    About this Role Are you a Graduate who is passionate about wanting to pursue a career within teaching? Are you looking to gain some classroom experience as a Teaching Assistant ah ...

  • Job Title

    Trustee Director

  • Location

    Guildford, Surrey

  • Posted

    2nd December 2024

  • School

    The Good Shepherd Trust

  • Salary

    Volunteer role

  • Hours

    Part Time

  • Description

    Location:  Academies Office, Larch Avenue, Surrey, GU1 1JY Contract Type:  Fixed Term Contract Term:  Part-Time Salary:  Volunteer role Closing Date:  Mid ...

  • Job Title

    Local Committee Members

  • Location

    Guildford, Surrey

  • Posted

    29th November 2024

  • School

    The Good Shepherd Trust

  • Salary

    Volunteer Role

  • Hours

    Full Time

  • Description

    1. Role and responsibilities of Local Committee Members Whether a parent member, a general member, or a staff member, our Local Committee members bring valuable information from a ...

About Us

The Guildford Diocesan Board of Education set up its own umbrella trust, Guildford Diocese Educational Trust (‘GDET’), at the end of 2011 to take forward its response to the Government’s academies agenda. GDET’s aims are broad but include the sponsorship of Church of England academies in the diocese. In order to take the sponsorship of academies further, The Good Shepherd Trust (GST) was established to manage diocesan academies.

This legal framework is required by the Department of Education and is closely regulated by them to ensure that trusts have the capacity to support significant improvement in their schools. The Good Shepherd Trust is a 'multi-academy trust' (or MAT), a family of ten schools within the Diocese of Guildford. It works with agencies and services in both the public and private sectors to provide support to each school based on its needs and priorities. Initially the work of the Trust was focused on sponsored academies, but it has since welcomed five diocesan schools that chose to convert to academy status.

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Ethos & Values

Ethos and Values

Our aim is to ensure that all schools in the Guildford Diocese are able to offer pupils transformational educational experiences which:

  • Encourage and recognise positive achievement in every person
  • Set high standards for all, confident that everyone can experience success
  • Provide a learning experience which develops pupils in body, mind and spirit
  • Provide a learning environment which is ordered and disciplined

 

What Makes Us Different?

What Makes Us Different?

We are committed to transforming learning, raising aspirations, increasing opportunities and improving standards for all our children. This means that:

We create an effective climate for learning –

  • by enabling children to know that they are created in the image of God and uniquely valued by Him
  • by providing a secure environment in which they can learn
  • by creating a clearly established framework of values so they know what is expected of them and how they should treat others
  • by offering them experiences, whatever their faith or background, that enable them to wrestle with life’s ‘big questions’ and find answers that give shape and meaning to their lives
  • by modelling Christian community life where all have a place and can contribute.

We set standards of excellence in teaching and learning – high expectations raise aspirations of pupils and their communities:

  • because church schools strive to offer excellence in all they do
  • because professional development of staff and school leaders is central to successful educational models.

We offer a curriculum and learning environment relevant to our learners – high standards in the core curriculum especially literacy and numeracy

  • learning experiences which stimulate, challenge and inspire; rooted in Christian values and teaching
  • shape the curriculum to the needs and interests of learners in school’s community.

We build strong and effective partnerships with parents and the local and wider community

  • because the engagement of parents/carers is vital to children’s educational achievements
  • because church schools are rooted in the local parish and wider church networks who provide practical and prayerful support for their schools
  • because children’s personal development grows through membership of community and enables them to become contributing citizens.

Our locations

Our locations

Our locations
Swavesey
Cambs
CB24 4RS