Community Care Tasmania have announced plans to develop the Respite and Training Centre for Excellence at Technopark Drive in Kings Meadows.

The proposed facility would include six rooms each with an individual ensuite available for respite care, along with a communal lounge, consultation rooms, nurses offices and a training facility.

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CCT chief executive Wendy Mitchell said the organisation currently services 2000 clients across the state with the aged care sector making up approximately 80 per cent of their clientele.

She said with the number of people requiring care expected to rise in the coming years the need for a facility that could provide respite and training was essential.

"Staff turnover in the industry has been high and it is difficult to retain qualified staff," she said.

According to Ms Mitchel, the proposed facility would provide the resources for external RTOs to train an additional 55 support workers completing their certificates II and III in aged care and or disability.

"The training centre would mean we could permanently provide qualified staff for respite care and provide overflow for the rest of the sector, "she said.

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She said CCT had already held discussions with several training providers, including TasTAFE who had expressed an interest in partnering with the facility.

She said the development of the facility would be in the interest of all health care providers including the Launceston General Hospital.

"Having more beds available for respite care would free up beds in the LGH who are in their recovery phase," she said.

The development of the facility is part of a $6 million project at Technopark which would include a separate building to house new offices for CCT.

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Ms Mitchell said the land for the development had already been purchased by the organisation, with $4 million - including $1million from the state government - currently secured for the project.

She said CCT had approached the Commonwealth Government to provide the remaining $2 million required to develop the centre as part of a federal infrastructure grant program.

According to Ms Mitchell, the grant funds were expected to be announced in July, but said she had not received confirmation from the government.

Bass Liberal MHR Bridget Archer confirmed she had been in discussion with CCT over the past 12 months around the project plans.

She said she was working with the relevant department to clarify the status of the application.

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Labor senator Helen Polley said the training of aged care specialists was essential after the Commonwealth government failed to make the training and retention of support workers a priority.

Opposition health and ageing spokesman Mark Butler said CCT was a great local organisation dedicated to providing care for Northern Tasmanians needing home care support and would work with CCT on their proposal.

"As the population continues to age we will need more respite beds and more trained carers, which is exactly what their centre of excellence will deliver," he said.

Ms Mitchell said if the federal funding was not secured, the respite and training wing of the facility would not proceed further limiting the states ability to support the community.

"This benefits everyone, who would be upset if we got this funding," she said.

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