Casual Roving Chef Manager

Care Home Chef / Sociable shift times (no late nights) / multiple locations in a small geographical area

Ready to Bring Your Culinary Skills Where They're Needed Most?

Join us a Bank / Casual Roving Chef Manager covering care homes across a compact Surrey area. With the freedom of zero-hours flexibility and £18.16 per hour, you'll step in where you're needed—bringing consistency, quality, and creativity to residents who truly appreciate great food.

What Makes This Different?

Pick up shifts across a small geographical patch in Surrey without being tied to one location.

Variety & Challenge: Have a key impact in ensuring we provide the best catering service to our residents across different homes, different kitchens, and help develop best practice and high quality meals.

Competitive Pay: £18.16 per hour—rewarding your expertise and adaptability.

Lead & Inspire: Take charge of kitchen teams, maintain high standards, and deliver meals that residents genuinely look forward to.

Your Surrey Patch:

You'll be covering two welcoming care homes in desirable Surrey locations with the opportunity to support other homes close-by:

West Hall, West Byfleet – Situated in the Surrey village of West Byfleet and set within the extensive grounds of a listed manor house, West Hall is our flagship luxury care home. Rated outstanding by CQC and 9.8/10 on carehome.co.uk

Moore Place, Esher – A well-established home in the heart of leafy Esher, Moore Place offers five-star accommodation and everything somebody looks for in a home – warmth and laughter, comfort and relaxation, and all the facilities and support they need to live a fulfilled an independent life. Rated 9.9/10 on carehome.co.uk

https://www.anchor.org.uk/our-properties/west-hall-west-byfleet/our-care/making-the-most-of-mealtimes 

Both homes are easily accessible and within a compact geographical area, making your bank shifts manageable and travel-friendly.

What You'll Do

• Design and deliver nutritious, flavourful menus tailored to diverse dietary needs
• Manage kitchen operations smoothly—even when you're the new face in the kitchen
• Bring fresh ideas and seasonal inspiration to every service
• Lead by example, supporting permanent teams and maintaining excellent standards

Why Join Us?

✓ Sociable hours that fit around your life

✓ Big-brand discounts and Blue Light Card savings

✓ £250 refer-a-friend scheme

✓ Annual Chef of the Year competition—showcase your talents and compete with the best

✓ Real impact—cook for people who notice, appreciate, and remember great food

What Our Chef Managers Say

Don't just take our word for it. Hear directly from chefs already in post—visit our dedicated Catering careers page:

https://www.anchor.org.uk/careers/where-you-fit/care/care-home-chef-and-catering-jobs-anchor (If viewing on Indeed, please copy and paste the link)

If you're a passionate chef who thrives on variety and values flexibility, we want to hear from you.

Apply now and turn your culinary skills into meaningful experiences across Surrey.

Please note: All applicants must already hold the legal right to work in the UK.

Anchor – a great place to work

Anchor is England’s largest not-for-profit providers of care and housing for older people. Our heartfelt ambition is to transform housing and care so everyone can have a home where they love living in later life.

We’re not-for-profit which means every penny we make or save is invested in the people who live with us, the places they live and the people who work here. That means a better standard of care and customer service, better wages, more investment in training and development and improved facilities.

Our values

Every one of us can make a difference to our residents and play a part in shaping homes and services around their needs.

Our Anchor values of being Accountable, Respectful, Courageous and Honest apply to us all, whether you manage colleagues as part of your role or not.

Displaying our values can influence those around us to do the same. We can all be leaders at Anchor and should all be driven by the same customer ethos.  Our Anchor Leadership Framework helps align these values with the skills and behaviours we demonstrate.

A rewarding environment

From health and happiness to finance and your career, we’ll give you all the support you need.

Health & happiness

• Gym, fitness and wellbeing discounts
• Mental health support
• Flexible working options

Finance

• Pension plan – contribute between 4% and 8% and we’ll match it or better
• Quick and easy pension transfer service
• Savings and financial advice, loans, free life assurance
• Discounts on shopping, holidays, phones, technology and more
• Free Blue Light Card

Career

• Ongoing personal and professional development programme
• Leadership Pathways online learning resources
• Career progression and promotion opportunities

To see our full range of benefits, check out our dedicated being well website Please follow the link or copy and paste https://anchorbeingwell.co.uk/ into your browser 

Celebrating diversity, celebrating you

Anchor is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We aim to celebrate diversity and inclusion in all that we do, as we know that the more diverse our colleagues are, the better care and support we can give to our residents and each other.  

We are proud to have an LGBT+ group for our residents, and also Disability, LGBT+ and race and ethnicity colleague networks. These work to celebrate diversity, address concerns, review policy and practice and empower their members.  We also have an Inclusive Ambassador network to allow all colleagues to be part of promoting diversity and to be an ally to others.

We are a Gold Standard Inclusive Employer, a Stonewall Diversity Champion, Menopause Friendly and a signatory to the Care Leaver Covenant, HouseProud Pledge and Age Friendly Employer Pledge schemes.