It will be difficult for Chelsea to qualify for any European competitions this season, Chelsea's inconsistency will not allow them to gather enough points that will qualify Chelsea for any of the European competitions next season. Chelsea should focus on winning their matches so that they will not be relegated this season, next season they can challenge for the title or qualify for the uefa champions league.
Lol the first part of your post is ok, it is true that Chelsea has no reason to believe they could have a chance to qualify for any of the European competitions. But why should Chelsea be concerned about getting relegated? Like, what are the indicators as of now in the table that you see as being a threat for Chelsea to be relegated by the end of the season? I think every single post should have a least amount of substance and effort put into it. That's why I would kindly ask you to provide the substance for the idea that Chelsea should put the whole focus on not being relegated.
No one will ever bet on Chelsea to win the Premier League title at the end of this season and even if Chelsea makes many changes in the teams and hires many players to have better performances, I still don't think if they can have any good chance for winning the title and as you said the best thing they can do at the end of this season is to just get the Europe League ticket for the next season which still hard for a team like Chelsea considering the results they got so far.
During the break in the first half of this season Chelsea have collected at least 28 points and are in 10th position, this would be impossible if Chelsea wanted to win the title this season and of course anyone would be skeptical of such beliefs.
No matter how good the changes made by Chelsea during this season, they will never be able to increase their chances of getting close to winning the title, maybe Chelsea will only be like last season, which only finished the Premier League competition in 12th position.
What Chelsea need to do is how they can play well and that way their future music will be able to compete and at least occupy position in the top 4 or top 5 standings.
But from what @Mayor of ogba said it doesn't make sense because Chelsea is in the top 10 so there is no risk that it might be relegated from the Premier League.
And of course there are other competitions that Chelsea can take part in besides the English League, namely the EFL Cup and FA Cup.
I know these are not big European competitions like the UCL and Europa League, but if they manage to get a title in one of these competitions it will be quite an achievement in Chelsea condition which is clearly experiencing downturn.