Purchasing Assistant

Benefits/Perks

Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance

Life Insurance

Disability Insurance

403(b) Retirement Plan

Paid Time Off (PTO)

Paid Holidays

Flexible Spending Account (FSA)

Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Company Overview

Mental Health Resource Center is a not-for-profit Florida corporation that provides a wide range of mental health and behavioral health care services to the community. Services include 24-hour emergency services, inpatient psychiatric services for children, adolescents, and adults, as well as outpatient services such as medication management, case management, and counseling.

Job Summary

The Purchasing Coordinator is responsible for coordinating purchasing needs under the supervision of the Director. Coordinates product and vendor research. Responsible for maintaining purchasing, distribution, and inventory records. Responsible for the physical inventory including receiving, stocking and distribution. Responsible for reproducing, maintaining inventory and distributing in house forms.

Responsibilities

• Coordinates activities involved in procuring goods and services.
• Reviews requisitions and advises managers when an item or quantity is questionable.
• Confers with vendors to obtain product or service information, such as price, availability and delivery schedule.
• Prepares purchase orders.
• Maintains procurement records such as items or services purchased, cost of items, and delivery.
• Discusses defective or unacceptable goods with users, vendors and others to determine source of trouble and corrective action
• Corresponds with Director of Purchasing and Food Services and Accounts Payable on billing and invoices for items received.
• Coordinates inventory and purchasing requests.
• Responsible for receipt of vendor shipment and the physical placement of items into stock or distribution to the appropriate company/ departments.
• Receives and fills orders from employees for company uniforms. Monitors inventory and orders additional items as needed.
• Responsible for the production of all in house forms using copy machine.

Qualifications

In order to be considered, candidates must have an Associate degree or two years equivalent college level education and one year purchasing and vendor relations experience required OR a High School diploma and two years of directly applicable purchasing and vendor relations experience required.

Must be able to interact appropriately with internal and external customers, including vendors, supervisory staff and other department professionals.

Position Details

This is a Full Time Days position: Monday through Friday Renaissance Behavioral Health Systems and Mental Health Resource Center are Equal Opportunity Employers.
Background screening and clearance through the Florida Care Provider Background Screening Clearinghouse is required for all positions:


Thank you for your interest in joining the team at Mental Health Resource Center and Renaissance Behavioral Health Systems. We offer a variety of opportunities in the behavioral health and social services fields. We have locations in Jacksonville and throughout Florida. Employees work together and support one another in a friendly, team-oriented atmosphere that encourages professional growth. We offer an ideal workplace for individuals dedicated to providing care and services that reflect our core values of compassion, integrity, and excellence.

Mental Health Resource Center, Inc. (MHRC) is a nonprofit organization that provides a wide range of behavioral health and social services to the community. Included in MHRC's service array are 24-hour emergency services and inpatient psychiatric services for children, adolescents, and adults. Outpatient services include medication management, care coordination, case management, intensive case management team services, counseling, psychosocial rehabilitation, an adult therapeutic family program, state hospital liaison services, mental health court, multidisciplinary forensic teams (MFT), jail-based diversion services, a Co-Responder Program with the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office, the Link-to-Life suicide prevention program, and services that assist individuals in obtaining benefits such as Social Security Income, Social Security Disability Income, Medicaid, food stamps, and housing. In addition, UF Health Jacksonville contracts with MHRC to manage the hospital's adult inpatient psychiatric unit.

MHRC also operates eight Florida Assertive Community Treatment (FACT) programs for adults with severe and persistent mental illness, located in Clearwater, Gainesville, Jacksonville, Kissimmee, Rockledge, Tampa, and Winter Haven, as well as a FACT Lite program providing Linking, Advocating, Treating, Transitioning, Empowering & Recovery Support (LATTERS) services in Jacksonville. The two FACT teams located in Jacksonville serve residents of Duval, Clay, and Nassau counties.


Renaissance Behavioral Health Systems and Mental Health Resource Center encourage all applicants to take advantage of opportunities for hire, and if internal applicants, transfers, promotions, and advancement, regardless of their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, handicap, disability, marital status, national origin, veteran status, or genetic information. RBHS and MHRC are Equal Opportunity Employers and Drug Free Workplaces.

Background screening and clearance through the Florida Care Provider Background Screening Clearinghouse is required for all positions: