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Is anyone here a teacher or works for the GTCNI

I am from Northern Ireland and am attedning university here. I have recently decided I want to go into primsry school teaching. But I cannot get into a PGCE primary with my degree.

If I go over to England for two years after I have finished the degree I am currently working on, and train to become a teacher with the organisation "Teach First" (Which is a training course that gives me a QTS and PGCE) would I be qualified to come back here and be a primary school teacher in this country, or is that qualification only accepted in England. There is no mention of this as an acceptable alternative on [UCAS](.) But yet [here](https://getintoteaching.education.gov.uk/non-uk-teachers/international-qualified-teacher-status) it says that QTS is recognised worldwide, which would presumably include here? And I have also seen this appear twice when researching: "QTS status is awarded by the Department of Education for Northern Ireland to teachers recognised as being qualified to UK standards".

Which I interpret to mean that as long as you qualify by UK standards you can apply to have your qualifications recognised? It doesn't exclude Teach first or say that those qualifications HAVE to come from a teaching degree. My dad is convinced some of the younger teachers at the school he works at trained with Teach first, as he thought he recognised the name when I brought it up. But my mum has asked me so many questions I am starting to doubt myself as to whether this qualification would be good enough to teach here.

Please help. Thanks in advance.