Caroline Jesper is Head of Professional Standards at BACP. She joined BACP in 2014 as an Accreditation Assessor and later moved into the Professional Standards Development Facilitator role, working on developing evidence-based competences and training curricula. She began the Head of Professional Standards role in March 2020, overseeing all aspects of Professional Standards at BACP including accreditation, ethics, competence and curricula development and approved qualifications. This work involves embedding EDI into training and practice standards.

Caroline is a counsellor, supervisor and trainer with over 23 years’ practitioner experience in various contexts across the sector. She has delivered training in both further and higher education and was a Senior Lecturer at York St John University for 13 years.