The only HR firm built exclusively for HHS organizations - serving providers across Hillsborough, Union, Cabarrus, Gaston, and the broader Tampa Metro region. We find the gaps. We build the systems. We stay until they run.
The Wilkinson Firm is an HR consulting firm built exclusively for behavioral health, IDD, and community health organizations in Tampa, Florida. We design HR infrastructure, compliance systems, retention frameworks, and direct-hire placement specifically for HHS providers regulated by the Florida Department of Health and Human Services (AHCA), Division of Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities and Substance Use Services (DMHDDSUS). We work with Tampa-area providers navigating SMMC plan transitions, CABHA designation, and the NC-specific clinical supervision requirements that out-of-state firms routinely miss.
Most HR firms work generalist. We work HHS-only. Every system, policy, and placement is designed for behavioral health, IDD, and community health operating reality - not retrofitted from a SaaS or manufacturing playbook.
Florida Department of Health and Human Services (AHCA), Division of Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities and Substance Use Services (DMHDDSUS) rules, SMMC plans, Managing Entity contracting, and Critical Access Behavioral Health Agency (CABHA) standards, and federal HIPAA / OSHA layered together. We know where the audit risk actually sits in Florida, not where a national firm assumes it sits.
We don't deliver a binder and disappear. Every TWF Signature Program™ includes implementation, training, and follow-through until the system is operating without us. PlacementCare™ includes an 18-month placement guarantee.
Your audit risk is not generic. It is Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA) licensure and the Care Provider Background Screening Clearinghouse, layered with DCF behavioral health regulation, SMMC managed care credentialing, and APD requirements for IDD services, layered with federal labor and privacy law. We build HR systems that satisfy every layer.
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Same firm. Same operating standard. Same Tampa-quality work, in your market.
Tampa HR consulting for behavioral health, IDD, and community health organizations.
Tampa Bay's care market sprawls across Hillsborough, Pinellas, and Pasco, and so do its workforces and its personnel files. USF feeds the clinical pipeline, BayCare anchors the systems, and growth keeps repricing every role. Hover or tap a tile to see how we solve each one.
Retention Reset rebuilds caseload geography and schedules around commute reality, and prices retention against real Tampa replacement costs.
Retention Reset →Foundation First and Leadership Launchpad make you the employer graduates stay with: real onboarding, visible advancement, trained supervisors.
Leadership Launchpad →Compliance Confidence enforces one personnel file standard across every site and county.
Compliance Confidence →Hiring in Tampa is a numbers game most agencies play blind. This metro employs 4,370 licensed behavioral health counselors and 13,120 direct support workers. Counselor pay runs $62,590, $2,802 above the Southeast metro average. We recruit and advise against these numbers, not against guesswork.
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Twenty minutes. No pitch. We map your top three workforce risks and tell you what to do about them. If we're a fit, we'll talk engagement. If we're not, you'll leave with a clearer picture either way.
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