Nursing Students — Exciting Part-Time Posts Alongside Studies, Intensive Care, Fossvogur, Landspítali
- Experience
- Entry level
- Location
- Reykjavík, Iceland
- Work arrangement
- On-site
- Employment type
- Temporary
- Department
- Intensive Care, Fossvogur
- Category
- Healthcare & Nursing
- Industry
- Healthcare & Nursing
- Experience
- Entry level
- Openings
- 1
- Apply by
- 6 Nov 2026
About the role
Are you a fourth-year nursing student with an interest in intensive care nursing? Landspítali is looking for nursing students for the intensive care unit in Fossvogur, where you will get a unique opportunity to get to know intensive care nursing and strengthen your clinical skills in instructive conditions. The posts are temporary part-time posts alongside studies, 20–100% as agreed, on shift work, with a temporary appointment to 31 August 2027 and a start as soon as possible, and the work schedule is adapted to the studies when shifts are planned. The intensive care unit belongs to the surgical, operating theatre and intensive care service and employs just over 70 staff — nurses, practical nurses and other staff — in varied and demanding work, in close cooperation with professionals in other specialties and with other departments of the hospital. The unit serves individuals, both children and adults, who need intensive care for a variety of reasons, providing both general intensive care and highly specialised care for patients with multiple trauma after serious injuries, head injuries, burn injuries and individuals with serious vascular diseases. Interested students are invited to contact the department head of the intensive care unit in Fossvogur for more information.
Responsibilities
- Role and responsibility in accordance with the job descriptions for nursing students according to length of study - Participation in interdisciplinary teamwork within the department and in cooperation with other departments - Participation in development and improvement
Requirements
Nursing student in the 4th year; positive attitude, initiative and communication skills; professional ambition and interest in acquiring skills in the nursing of intensive care patients; ability and capacity to work in a team; Icelandic skills are required (Íslenskukunnátta áskilin). Listing also states language proficiency: Icelandic 4/5.
Benefits
Pay under the current collective agreement made by the Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs and Sameyki. Applications must include an education and career history plus a cover letter and copies of diplomas and licences. Landspítali's equality policy is taken into account in recruitment at the hospital, all applications will be answered, and applications may be valid for 6 months from the expiry of the application deadline, cf. Article 2 of Regulation No. 1000/2019. Landspítali is a lively and varied workplace where around 7,000 people work in interdisciplinary teams, and it has received equal pay certification under the equal pay standard ÍST85:2012.
How to apply
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